#Tip of the day for journalists: Bookmark this geodata on doctors and dentists
February 5th, 2013Posted by Sarah Marshall in Data, Top tips for journalists
Today’s tip of the day for journalists comes from a tweet I noticed this morning which highlights Department of Health data that could be useful to journalists.
This could be handy bit of #opendata list of GPs, dentists and pharmacies with locations and opening times from FoI whatdotheyknow.com/request/list_o…
— Sarah Hartley (@foodiesarah) February 5, 2013
The Freedom of Information request asked for geolocated data of doctors surgeries, dentists, opticians and pharmacies.
The response is a zip file (at the link in the tweet) which contains a series of spreadsheets.
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Tags: journalism tips, Open Data
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