Hi guys, I am a complete newbie, any help would is highly appreciated. I am working with a shapefile of the MSOA regions in the UK and would like to get a count of all the sport centres within each of these regions. What's the best way to approach this using Python? Thanks asked 07 Jun '19, 08:42  bf08 |
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A simpler was would be to use QGIS. With a layer of MSOAs and a layer of sports centre centroids (example Overpass query) it is a simple Point in Polygon query. In python I would guess you will want to use something like Shapely to manipulate the data (for instance as discussed in this old blog post). One important caveat is that leisure=sports_centre in OSM is often not equivalent to a council or privately run sports or leisure centre in ordinary UK parlance (i.e., offering a range of sports). It is often used with any sports related facility such as a private rugby club or a tennis centre. answered 07 Jun '19, 14:00  SK53 ♦ |
