Education.com Launches School Boundaries
A little over a week ago, Education.com launched their school boundaries project (submit your own press release for $49.95). The boundaries cover all 13,000 school districts in the United States. According to Education.com, “Currently, Education.com’s School Boundary Tool offers 100% coverage of school district information, but about 55% of school assignment information for particular U.S. home addresses.” You can see the boundaries here or get their free school boundary widget here.
Having overseen the release of the neighborhood boundary project at Zillow a few years ago, I believe this school data set is an extremely valuable and sought after one — previously unavailable, unless you had a LOT of money to spend.
I’m curious if we’ll see any innovation from the developer community like this mashup my good friend Andrew Mattie created using the Zillow neighborhood boundaries. I suppose you’ll have to ask the team at Education.com if you want the raw boundary files — not sure what their policy is on that data, but guessing they will come by and leave a comment here to clarify.
For those that want boundaries directly on your own website, take a look at their widget.
Tina McGee
Posted at 08:39h, 19 FebruaryWow, that’s great. Since Zillow offers neighborhood boundaries and now they own Diverse Solutions, it would be great if DS could incorporate neighborhood boundaries in their dsSearchAgent product. Based on your link, it looks like Andrew Mattie was already working on that 4 years ago. Kind of surprised its not already part of dsSearchAgent.
Would love to see the school boundaries also included with dsSearchAgent. Hopefully Education.com will offer an API that DS could use. I will make use of the education.com widget, but that’s not nearly as useful as having it integrated with IDX.
Kat Eden - Education.com
Posted at 15:48h, 21 FebruaryThanks
for helping us spread the word Drew. At this time, we’re offering
School Boundaries data as a widget or directly on our site (and not as an
API), but we’re always looking for meaningful ways to optimize the value our
data provides so we welcome your readers to contact us directly with innovative
implementations they’re interested in pursuing. ([email protected])