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Belgian pharmacies

This small github repo dumps each day the list of pharmacies in Belgium published by AFMPS and OpenStreetMap, and maintains history in JSON files :

How do you do that?

AFMPS publishes at irregular times a up to date list of pharmacies. That is however a Excel file that is a bit hard to exploit :

Vergunningsnummer Numéro d'autorisation Naam Nom Adres Adresse Postcode Code Postal Gemeente Commune Status Statut Vergunninghouder Détenteur d'autorisation Uitbater Exploitant X (Lambert 2008) Y (Lambert 2008)
913007 Familia Rue Du Chene 38 C 5590 Ciney *(1) L'ECONOMIE POPULAIRE (KBO-BCE : 0401388176) Idem 699195.0625 606744.8125
923702 Pharmacie Demars Rue D'anthee 58 5644 Mettet null DEMARS (KBO-BCE : 0689526478) Idem 674963 609546.375
123502 Keustermans Kapelstraat 30 2223 Heist-op-den-berg null Blockx (KBO-BCE : 0814823160) Idem 673903.875 689536.9375
111009 Van Butsele Thibautstraat 139 2140 Antwerpen null Van Butsele (KBO-BCE : 0541895646) BVBA Apotheker Karen Van Butsele (KBO-BCE : 0899874740) 655857.25 710446.875

After some Python magic, we can turn that into something useful, like with Jupyter notebook :

Why do you do that?

Several reasons :

  • Open data sources are not always up to date or present for each region in Belgium
  • Websites like this one don't have a good UX
  • A good way to track changes (new entries, suspended entries, ...) for pharmacies
  • Because I can ;)

License

Belgian pharmacies © 2022 by Jacques Yakoub is licensed under CC BY-NC-SA 4.0. To view a copy of this license, visit http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/4.0/