[Talk-GB] Kent Pharmacy, OSM Validation

[Ed Avis]

TimSC <mapping at ...> writes:

>I have done further investigations. As I said, the national dataset has 
>about 90% of pharmacies exactly located. But in the Kent data set does 
>not include this precise data and instead has the postcode centre as the 
>pharmacy position. IMHO, if we can get permission for the national level 
>data set, we should import/merge the good 90% (and manually survey the 
>remainder).

If pharmacies are just points with lat/lon, it is not always simple to import
into the existing map, even if we knew the position were entirely accurate.
The road network in OSM has some margin for error so a pharmacy might end up
on the wrong side of the road.  In areas with buildings, the pharmacy node might
appear in the next-door building by mistake.

That said, if you are looking for a pharmacy, it is certainly more useful to have
one within a five metre accuracy rather than no data at all.  So I would still
be in favour of adding the data.

-- 
Ed Avis <eda at waniasset.com>