Gun Free School Zone map for CA

[anony mouse]

In response to discussions about this map kinda threadjacking another thread, I am starting it here to keep that one cleaner.

I am friends with the person that is doing the map, I will be passing along any comments or suggestions about it to him.

http://www.0xdecafbad.com/gfsz has Google Map integration and is trying to get all the schools that qualify in the state of California plotted on the map.

Currently it only has private schools due to a lack of a suitable source for charter and public schools. He has contacted the Dept of Education for the state to try to get an address listing of all the missing schools.

This map is a work in progress, its also the first one he has done so expect bugs to be present.

Any comments, suggestions, etc would be passed on to the author of the page.

[KWA-S]

Cool map. For the public schools, you might have to go district to district.

Do you have plans for including universities/colleges? Maybe as a different color (seeing as a different law prohibits protection on university property)?

[Piper]

I think it's still useful. It gives you a general idea where all of the schools are. Unfortunately, it also gives a madman the location of all of the free fire zones that are available in an area. And that's really what our childrens and grandchildren's schools are.

[mblat]

Well.....
I appreciate the effort, but like you said - it is truly inpomplete. Missing schools my kids used to/currently go to

[DDT]

Well.....
I appreciate the effort, but like you said - it is truly inpomplete. Missing schools my kids used to/currently go to

It doesn't have any public schools yet, they're working on that. It is a great idea and I know there were a couple other, similar projects out there if you care to search.

[alexander]

Great. Mandatory open carry detour required to pass through Santa Barbara.

[dilligaffrn]

Great. Mandatory open carry detour required to pass through Santa Barbara.

San Marcos High and La Cumbre Jr. High will probably overlap 101 as well...

[yellowfin]

Wow, about 6 zones in my area, so I'm guessing with the public schools added to this OC is a no go for me unless things really improve on the CCW front.

[Dmitri76]

For those zones that overlap a freeway, or simply in an area where you do not live, or visit often - Would you be expected to "reasonably know" that you are within 1000 ft of a school ?

[CCWFacts]

Great. Mandatory open carry detour required to pass through Santa Barbara.

Basically any urban area is going to be like a maze of school zones.

Actually, that's good for us. If it were reasonable and practical to bear arms without violating this law, maybe the law would be more defensible. As it is, anyone who lives in an urban city in this state can show that he would have to be spiderman (climbing on rooftops and the sides of buildings) to be able to stay out of safety-free mass-murder zones school zones.

[megavolt121]

Can he migrate this map over to Google Earth and share the map, that way you don't lose any of the features of google maps. For example, I noticed immediately on his site, I lost all capabilities of using my scroll wheel to zoom.

[Librarian]

School zones are K-12, so Universities and Colleges don't need the 1000' zones labeled; but without CCW it's not usually legal to bring a gun onto campus.

Similar Google Earth image, with .kml file marking some of the 600+ things Google recognizes as a 'school'.



Usual qualifications: not all schools marked, 1000' is approximate, circles centered on the lat/long Google has as the street address rather than the property boundaries.

And, as I remember doing this, I realize I did put in SF State, so a couple of those circles at the south end of 19th avenue in this pic really shouldn't be there.

[yellowfin]

I always knew SF was diseased by leftism. This picture proves it.

[Fate]

I saw a "Safe School Zone Bus Stop" sign the other day.

The city bus stop is outside of the 1000 ft. perimeter. I wonder how far around the bus stop the "school zone" applies. Might have to swing back by there some day and get a better look at the sign.

[slappomatt]

I would be willing to give a list of public schools in my area. but it would only be a local area in SD. is there a blog or anything where we could post addresses to be added to the DB?