[Talk-GB] Tagging a Driving Test Centre

Dan Glover dan at dgsys.co.uk
Mon Jan 23 12:01:26 UTC 2023


On 2023-01-23 11:13, Mark Goodge wrote:

> The information is already OGL - go to the government website and
> search for centres near your postcode:
> 
> https://www.gov.uk/find-driving-test-centre
> 
> They even include links to OSM as well as Google Maps in the results,
> which is nice.

So it would be good to ensure OSM shows something meaningful at each 
site.

[...]

> If anybody felt like making the effort (and I might even get round to
> it myself if I find a few spare tuits), it would probably be
> relatively simple to script a set of queries to generate the full
> list. You wouldn't need a query for every postcode in the UK, you
> could probably whittle it down to fewer than a hundred or so based on
> urban centres.

Yes. There seem to be ten results for each query. The trick will be to 
avoid overlaps without leaving holes.

Dan



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