[Talk-GB] Tagging a Driving Test Centre

[Paul Berry]

Also a red flag for data quality would be any mapped centres with DSA still
in their name: it changed to DVSA nearly 9 years ago.

Regards,
*Paul*

On Mon, 23 Jan 2023 at 12:07, Dan Glover <dan at dgsys.co.uk> wrote:

> 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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