[Talk-GB] Tagging a Driving Test Centre

Dan Glover dan at dgsys.co.uk
Sun Jan 22 23:50:55 UTC 2023


While looking at something else nearby, I see my local DVSA Test Centre 
is merely a building, with name "Herne Bay Test Centre". Not great. What 
is tested? However a quick search for inspiration hasn't found any clear 
guidance. I see one example where the tags office=government and 
government=transportation have been used 
https://www.openstreetmap.org/way/574734729 - this feels like it may be 
along the right lines. A quick check with overpass turbo shows there are 
a few sites with these tags, but they have been applied also (not 
unreasonably) to a couple of offices related to Transport for London.

However in Cheltenham we have building=residential for the local centre 
https://www.openstreetmap.org/way/891362146 - elsewhere there are 
examples such as amenity=driving_school name=Driving Test Centre (this 
is the local DVSA centre) https://www.openstreetmap.org/node/4705439493

Reading around the subject I see there are "over 300" centres but 
whether it's possible to obtain a full dataset under acceptable terms is 
another question.


Dan






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