[Talk-GB] Kent Pharmacy, OSM Validation

[TimSC]

Hi all,

I was thinking about Kent's open data and how we can improve our 
mapping. I've been talking to Gregory about missing schools but for some 
reason, I chose to look at pharmacies. I was partly inspired by Draco's 
post box locator [1]. I thought I could do a web 2.0 annotation of the 
pharmacy data set and allow adding links into the OSM database. This is 
the result.

http://toolserver.org/~timsc/locateservices/view.php

On this site you can:

*Geolocate pharmacies on NPE, OS7, StreetView, OSM, given their rough 
initial positions from the original data set (I am guessing the initial 
position is simply the postcode centre).
*Associate a pharmacy with an OSM database object. This marks it as "found".
*Export a GPX with all the missing pharmacies.

Apologies for the minimalist appearance of the site. I will get around 
to tarting it up some time... I also wrote the code to apply to other 
data sets - watch this space. We are actually lacking most pharmacies in 
Kent. On the other hand, OSM has one or two that the KCC data set 
doesn't (in new estates). This site should help everybody find them.

Any comments?

TimSC

[1] http://www.dracos.co.uk/play/locating-postboxes/