Monday, 21 February 2011
Thursday, 17 February 2011
Transcript part 1
Who are you?
My Names David Brown
and?
Ian Callum
Dr Ian Callum?
Thats correct
What does your ogranisation do?
Well Our organistations objective or mission is to supply swimming pools to low decile schools and also to raise funds to fund those pools and also the equally if not more important water safety eduction that needs to go with it.
Are you doing it soely with primary schools or is it going to be right through?
The main intention, is to put it first into primary schools, because thats where you want to start the swimming from the very early age and our target is the low decile schools which at the moment cant even afford to go to the public pools even if they are available
and what do you qualify as a low decile school?
Decile 1 to 5
How many staff do you have in your organisation
0
Its a purley voluntary organisition
What is the point of the desired system
The system is to identify from a geographical information system where these schools are how they are clustered together, how they relate to muniple swimming pools, possible long term how they rate geographically to identified water hazards and allied with that a database of schools which would have information which is generally available from the education dept sites in terms of the profile of the school, ethnic composition of students
Why does ethnicity play a role
Because suprisingly because most people consider that polynesianss for instance that come from the pacific islands can all swim where infact its the reverse thats ture there is no swimming oppurtunities in the pacific islands youve got very low coral reefs and outside that you have very deep water and lots of sharks so people do go swimming, so they come here and have go nice safe beaches but they dont know how to swim
And id add to that, that its important in terms of working with the school comunity to know what the ethnicity of the students are., youre going to get some schools that are are alpomost entirely maori, polynesian or mixtures and that information is quite valuable in terms of structuring a program which involves the community
Okay
The other side is that there are alot of asians and where as a pacific islander may not be able to swim they can appreciate the dangers of the sea, whereas an asian whos never seen the sea before has got no concept of the power of water.
Okay so you mentioned before a water hazard and schools close to water hazards. A water hazard is justany large body of water or some wher epople can genuinley go swimming
or actually more importnatly where they can go and drown
o Okay
But a specific eample weve just been speaking to a headmaster, principal this afternoon was great concern to him there was a swimming hole in a old disused quarry not far from his school and the kids were going down there to swim without understanding in some cases without the ability to swim but without any understanding of the water saftey issues
Okay
What kind of information are you going to be wanting to put into the system? Like How many variables are you going to be looking to put in
its important for us to identify first of all the low decile schools
ok
To identify if some of those are in clusters so that a pool can be shared amongst several schools can be shared between pools, its important therefor that the young children have got the ability to walk to the pool, if the poo was on the otherside of a major road it would be innacesabile, then we would be look at the ability of the school to actually make use of the pool in terms of the water saftey education side
Will you take into account topography, things like maybe a primary school may be really close to a pool but its up a really steep hill.
I think the point ian made that essentially distance isnt the only factor it could be 50m away from a municiple pool but if theirs a major highway between the two, it needs to be taken into account
How many schools/ pools would you be looking to add into the system or are you just going to do it by genral greater area
Well this is a new zealand wide thing, I dont have the numbers at my finger tips but theres bertwwen 2 or 3 thousand schools of various kinds of which my geuss is probably 1000 of them
Questions
Who are you?
What does your organisation do?
How many staff do you employ?
What is the point of the desired system?
Would you like a computer system to aid you in this task?
What kind of information are would you be putting into this system?
How many schools/pool would you like in the system? OR by area?
What is the origin of the data?
What mapping systems could we use?
Would we be able to gain access to council information?
What form is the data in at the moment?
How will you prioritise the schools?
Would you like this to be web based or on the machine?
Would you like a Text based interface or a graphical user interface?
Would you like the information to be displayed in the system, or on a separate sheet?
Would you like to be able to print from this system?
Would you like to able to reduce reports in this system?
Would you need to export data out of this system?
Would you need to import data into this system?
Will staff need training?
Intro
Definition - Nature of the problem
Description of the organisation.
Pools to schools is a charity dedicated to providing pools to low decile primary schools (5 or lower). The hope is that this will increase the number of youths in New Zealand that can swim, lowering the number of fatalities related to drowning in the youth population. As a charity they will potentially be receiving funding from water safe New Zealand.
What they want:
Pools to schools want a system to allow for them to plan routes for the portable pools. As such they need to prioritise schools based on multiple factors. The factors that will affect the priorities of the school are: Decile, access to pool, locality and the age group of the students.
Origin and form of the data:
The potential sources of data are:
- Google maps (Mapping: School locations/Municipal Pool Locations)
- Tumonz (Mapping/Topography)
- Council GIS system (Mapping/ Information on schools)
- Dept of Education (Information on schools)
- Watersafe Auckland (Information on pools)
Thus far the form of most of this data is unknown.
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