ID Card Centres Mapped

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As spotted on Blairwatch, the list of ID Card Processing Centres has been announced.

With a wee bit of data manipulation (many thanks to those nice chaps at mySociety for their geocoding API), here's a first cut map of the locations:

Or, take a look at the full map.

This is a first cut - there are a couple of dupes where I obviously couldn't work out which was the correct place from the lat/long. There are also a few which the API didn't return data. In both cases, I'm too lazy/it's too late at night for me to manually correct them. I'll return to it on Friday night, when I'm back at home again. Now mostly fixed up with help from Tom's eagle eyes. Screenshot's from the old data, but the Google map's right.

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Tom (not verified) wrote on Thu, 2006-05-04 08:18

Very cool

That's saved me a job!

Here's the dupes/missings I can see:
King's Lynn and Bury St. Edmunds are missing, hence the gap in East Anglia.
Newport isn't on - it's Newport in Wales rather than Newport in Essex, hence the gap between Bristol and Swansea.
There are two Lutons, wrong one near Exeter.
St. Austell is missing - is there a problem with places with St. in the name?
There are two Crawleys, wrong one near Oxford.
There are two Swindons, wrong one near Cheltenham,
Blackburn is marked near Sheffield, not in the right place, and also between Glasgow and Edinburgh!
There are two Warwicks, wrong one near Carlisle

Still brilliant stuff - how did you get the GIF for this page?

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martin wrote on Thu, 2006-05-04 11:54

Cheers for those

All those fixed on the db - will be on the map after the hourly update. The db table now has 69 rows, which is a good place to be. If anyone spots anything in the wrong place, let me know.

The GIF for the page is a screenshot...

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John Handelaar (not verified) wrote on Thu, 2006-05-04 15:16

Har har

I mean, by far the most efficient way to ensure compliance with an unpopular new law would be to take places where they hate you anyway, and make their inhabitants trek hundreds of miles to get a card.

South Armagh! The entire Scottish Highlands! Wales!

England expects, indeed.

I'll be interested to see whether HMG will be forking out the required sums to ship the entire adult population of the Hebrides, Orkneys and Shetlands to Oban, Inverness or Wick.

Me, I'm relaxed about ID cards on the grounds that a) it will probably never actually get done and b) I left the country already :)

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martin wrote on Fri, 2006-05-05 14:48

Remote Communities

If you live in a remote community, the intention is apparently to conduct the interview via a 'secure webcam link', presumably based in council offices or some such.

Because, as we know, that's the best way to get the biometric data that the ICAO passport standard requires which is the reason for the whole thing (according to Andy Burnham). Which reminds me, did he keep his job today?

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jonathan hartley (not verified) wrote on Thu, 2006-08-17 23:21

link to php file doesn't work for me

Regardless of whether I click on the link in Firefox or explorer, I just get a dialog asking me whether to save or open the .php file with an application.

(Amusingly, but incidentally, asking firefox to open the php file with firefox had the scary effect of opening a new firefox window, which tried to open the php file in a new firefox window, which tried to... etc. It opened about 60 in 2 seconds, before I managed to kill it.)

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