[Talk-GB] Kent Pharmacy, OSM Validation

[Andy Mabbett]

I'm told, in private e-mail:

      You can get all England from
http://data.gov.uk/dataset/location_of_pharmacies
      at least - presumably under the OGL.

On 25 May 2011 14:00, Andy Mabbett <andy at pigsonthewing.org.uk> wrote:
> On 25 May 2011 13:33, TimSC <mapping at sheerman-chase.org.uk> wrote:
>
>> 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.
>
> This is splendid. I've thought we should have something reusable like
> this, since the cycle-shop finder, but don't have the coding skills to
> JFDI.
>
> Is this Kent council data, or NHS? Can't we get national data on
> phramacies from the latter?

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Andy Mabbett
@pigsonthewing
http://pigsonthewing.org.uk