Hi all,
I was thinking about Kent's open data and how we can improve our
mapping. I've been talking to Gregory about missing schools but for some
reason, I chose to look at pharmacies. I was partly inspired by Draco's
post box locator [1]. I thought I could do a web 2.0 annotation of the
pharmacy data set and allow adding links into the OSM database. This is
the result.
http://toolserver.org/~timsc/locateservices/view.php
On this site you can:
*Geolocate pharmacies on NPE, OS7, StreetView, OSM, given their rough
initial positions from the original data set (I am guessing the initial
position is simply the postcode centre).
*Associate a pharmacy with an OSM database object. This marks it as "found".
*Export a GPX with all the missing pharmacies.
Apologies for the minimalist appearance of the site. I will get around
to tarting it up some time... I also wrote the code to apply to other
data sets - watch this space. We are actually lacking most pharmacies in
Kent. On the other hand, OSM has one or two that the KCC data set
doesn't (in new estates). This site should help everybody find them.
Any comments?
TimSC
[1] http://www.dracos.co.uk/play/locating-postboxes/
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