Saturday 27 June 2009

Minicab portal

I've discovered a minicab portal that lists mini cab firms by borough. I'm not sure about their data quality - there's a mix of '020' and '0208' spellings of phone numbers. Also, there are several non-geographic phone numbers listed - I wonder if some firms have got themselves listed in Barking & Dagenham even though their vehicles aren't based here.

I'm not sure that boroughs are a terribly helpful way of dividing up the information - people are likely to just want the nearest one to them.

Of course in an ideal world there wouldn't be dozens of phone numbers. Customers would just book centrally and the nearest available and suitable vehicle would be assigned and dispatched. That would be most efficient and user friendly, but we have to have competition and a bewildering listof companies/phone numbers.

http://www.londonminicabnetwork.com/barkingdagenham.htm

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