Find Me A Dentist
Description
Because teeth hurt! Scans the NHS database for dentists near your postcode for the nearest that is currently accepting new patients.
Techie notes: because the NHS service seems to use national grid references rather than latitude/longitude, we geolocate the postcode using the Yahoo geocoding API and turn the returned lat/long into grid references using a hacked together perl script.
Authors: Tom Lea (tomlea.co.uk) and Luke Redpath (lukeredpath.co.uk)
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Project URL: http://teeth.tomlea.co.uk
Github repository: http://github.com/cwninja/nhs_dentist_finder
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