Algeria's Schools

Name: Algeria's Schools
Creator: GeoAlgeria
License: https://opensource.org/licenses/MIT

@geoalgeria/ecoles

11,855 schools and kindergartens across all 69 wilayas from OpenStreetMap (ODbL): classified by cycle (4,019 primaire, 2,378 moyen/CEM, 1,576 secondaire/lycée, 268 préscolaire) and by kind (regular vs. language/Quranic/driving schools, training & special-needs centres). Bilingual FR/AR (8,635 named), with isced_levels, address and commune/wilaya linkage. The largest openly-geocoded school layer for Algeria.

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Source: OpenStreetMap (ODbL), amenity=school + amenity=kindergarten

Install

npm install @geoalgeria/ecoles

Quick example

import ecoles from "@geoalgeria/ecoles";

const all = ecoles.ecoles();                                 // 11,855 schools
const lycees = all.filter((e) => e.cycle === "secondaire");  // 1,574 lycées
const alger = all.filter((e) => e.wilaya_code === "16");     // schools in Algiers

API reference

Name	Signature	Description
`ecoles`	`ecoles(): Ecole[]`	All 11,855 schools & kindergartens.
`metadata`	`metadata(): Metadata`	Package metadata (counts by cycle/kind/sector, coverage, licences).

Record shape

Field	Type	Nullable	Description
`id`	`string`	no	Stable id, `{wilaya}-{seq}` (e.g. "16-00042").
`name`	`string`	yes	Best available name (raw preferred, else FR/AR).
`name_fr`	`string`	yes	French / Latin-script name.
`name_ar`	`string`	yes	Arabic name.
`wilaya_code`	`string`	no	Zero-padded ("01".."69").
`commune_code`	`string`	yes	geoalgeria commune code.
`commune`	`string`	no	Commune (nearest-centroid join).
`lat`	`number`	no	Latitude (WGS84).
`lng`	`number`	no	Longitude (WGS84).
`geo_precision`	`GeoPrecision`	no	Surveyed node vs. building centroid.
`geo_method`	`GeoMethod`	no	How the coordinates were derived.
`source`	`EcoleSource`	no	Provenance (OpenStreetMap).
`refs`	`Refs`	no	External identifiers (OSM element id).
`cycle`	`EcoleCycle`	no	Education cycle (inferred from isced:level + name).
`cycle_label_fr`	`string`	no	French label for the cycle.
`cycle_label_ar`	`string`	no	Arabic label for the cycle.
`kind`	`EcoleKind`	no	Establishment kind, orthogonal to cycle.
`kind_label_fr`	`string`	no	French label for the kind.
`kind_label_ar`	`string`	no	Arabic label for the kind.
`isced_levels`	`IscedLevels`	yes	ISCED levels served, sorted list (e.g. "1;2").
`sector`	`EcoleSector`	yes	Ownership, only when the map signals it.
`address`	`string`	yes	Single-line address from OSM addr:* tags.

Formats

JSONCSVGEOJSONTS

The npm package ships JSON. Other formats are available in each GitHub Release.

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