I'm told, in private e-mail: You can get all England from http://data.gov.uk/dataset/location_of_pharmacies at least - presumably under the OGL.
On 25 May 2011 14:00, Andy Mabbett <a...@pigsonthewing.org.uk> wrote: > On 25 May 2011 13:33, TimSC <mapp...@sheerman-chase.org.uk> wrote: > >> 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. > > This is splendid. I've thought we should have something reusable like > this, since the cycle-shop finder, but don't have the coding skills to > JFDI. > > Is this Kent council data, or NHS? Can't we get national data on > phramacies from the latter? -- Andy Mabbett @pigsonthewing http://pigsonthewing.org.uk _______________________________________________ Talk-GB mailing list Talk-GB@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-gb