where we are...

[Lsetlock]

I batch-mapped the school population, just for my own curiosity, really. I'm not sure if it's a great idea to upload a map with the addresses and approximate ages of a few hundred local kids, but if anyone else can think of a use for it I will share.

Two buts...

There's a bug, where it only marks the oldest child in the family (so for instance my house has a marking for Aidan, not Lila.)

This is from the directory, which is missing some addresses and may not reflect recent moves. Where there were two addresses, I chose the Fall Creek address. When there were two Fall Creek addresses, I chose the first.

[thaffenden]

Did anything leap out at you from doing this? Maybe a few comments on what the map looks like might be interesting.

[Lsetlock]

Nothing really unknown. It confirmed that the most dense areas for students are the northestern section of FC, and also along Spencer Rd in Titus Flats. So this can be used from the environmental angle, because that far corner of FC can't really walk to any other school. So while it's true that a large chunk - geographically - of the FC catchment could walk easily to BJM as well, the population isn't really equally distributed across the FC catchment. The population is more concentrated on the outer, eastern and northern perimeters of the area. This means buses, either a long route around the whole perimeter, or multiple buses grabbing the eastern, and the northern kids. Ditto with the southern kids. My own house may be walkable to BJM by choice, but, at .6 miles, is actually outside the walking distance for elementary kids (I believe this is .4, but don't quote me w/o checking.) And my house is the northernmost house in the Titus/FC zone, so it only gets farther away from here. More buses. Again, this is just eyeballing it, but it looks like a scant minority of the FC kids are within the currently defined walkable range for elementary kids from BJM.