[Talk-gb-westmidlands] Tools for Food Hygiene Rating Scheme (FHRS) data

[Greg]

Hi Brian,
 
Thanks for your comments.
 
I'm not sure what the (B) after certain district names signifies; the
names come from the OS Boundary Line data used to split the data into
manageable chunks. I might try to automatically remove them in later
versions of the code.
 
It's hard to make the stats table labels any easier to understand
without losing their exact meaning, but I'm happy to incorporate any
suggested explanations.
 
I agree about regular updates. Unfortunately it's not something I can
commit to doing manually and I don't have a server on which to run it
automatically at regular intervals. The code and software it uses
(Python and PostGIS) are freely available though and I'm happy to help
someone get it up and running.
 
Thanks,
Greg.
 
 
On Sun, Apr 17, 2016, at 11:58 AM, Brian Prangle wrote:
> Hi Greg
> Fantastic resource!  Thanks for your effort here. I'll start using the
> toool immediately. A couple of comments:
>
> What does the B signify after a district name
> The logic in your stats table took a bit of working out - perhaps an
> explanantion might be appropriate.
> As I (and I guess others) work through this tool it will need a
> regular update  for matches between OSM and FHRS date otherwise it
> will gradually become less and less useful. Robert Whitacker updates
> his schools and postbox data roughly weekly - perhaps we should aim at
> that. Greg - if this is beyond your resources how do we tackle this
> West Mids mappers?
>
> Regards
> Brian
>
> On 16 April 2016 at 11:32, Greg <gregrs at fastmail.co.uk> wrote:
>> Hi all,
>>
>> I've developed some tools for visualising Food Hygiene Rating Scheme
>> (FHRS) and OSM data, finding possible matches between it and
>> importing useful tags into JOSM.
>>
>> I think the FHRS data is a useful source of postcodes and addresses,
>> and it can also be a helpful reminder of local establishments to add
>> to the map. It is my hope that the tools I’ve developed could help us
>> to efficiently add and verify data in our local areas (rather than
>> importing large amounts of data automatically).
>>
>> I have created a set of maps (one per OS Boundary Line district) for
>> the West Midlands and uploaded them here:
>> https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/42978572/FHRS%20West%20Midlands/index.html.
>> Please do have a look and I hope you find them useful.
>>
>> I don’t have the time or computing resources to update the data very
>> regularly or to widen the geographical area beyond the West Midlands,
>> but the code is freely available at
>> http://github.com/gregrs-uk/python-fhrs-osm if anyone would like to
>> use it.
>>
>> I can post this on the wider talk-GB list if this would be helpful…
>>
>> Thanks,
>> Greg.
>>
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