[Talk-GB] Kent Pharmacy, OSM Validation

[TimSC]

Thanks for the feedback, all.

I'll have a think about if I can do something about that. Apart from 
having to modify the code, the main effort to making this type of data 
useful is to do the comparison with OSM to find what is missing. The 
post boxes have an obvious reference number physically written on them. 
Pharmacies don't have an obvious unique code (I am referring to 
surveying in OSM, rather than peeking in the database.). I found matches 
by doing a XAPI query and then manually comparing the results. That 
probably won't scale up to the national size database without other 
people helping.

Currently, I can't just import the whole database into my script because 
every pharmacy is sent every time the page is refreshed. This works for 
small ish data sets. I could split the data into regions, or do some 
fancy dynamic map stuff. Also, it would be harder to patrol so many 
pages from abuse, unless I just remove the comment feature...

TimSC


On 25/05/11 14:48, Andy Mabbett wrote:
> 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.
>