Experiment: we collect a directory of units that issued a passport
The most tiresome field when entering a passport is “Issued By”. It’s a chore to drive into a uniform by the “Department of the Interior of the Medvedevsky District of the Mari El Republic”. People get angry, shorten the name as necessary, make mistakes.
It would be nice to suggest options for the unit code.
Have long dreamed about tips for divisions that issued a passport
There is no good reference (but there is a bad one)
We already have tips: at addresses, companies, banks, name, email . That is, the engine is ready, only data is needed.
The problem is that there is simply no open official directory of the FMS units. Surely it exists somewhere in the bowels of the departments, with seven seals, but does not appear outside. Where to get the information is unclear. This base is
constantly popping up . But its authorship is unknown, and the quality of the data inside is low, we checked. Even worse, the names of the units are stored in the nominative case, while in the questionnaires they ask for the instrumental. If necessary, use this health guide, but we are not responsible for anything.
And you still have to look for good data somewhere: every day we are asked for tips on “Where issued”. It is understandable, because the field is always found in profiles. In the end, we had no choice but to compile the directory ourselves. Well, as ourselves ... with the help of the hall.
Putting together a guide for everyone, beautiful and complete
We thought - why not make a directory of the units that issued the passport together. And they launched a form for collecting data dadata.ru/fix/fms . The idea is this.
- Those who wish to leave information about the unit specified in the passport. In the form of three fields, there is nothing personal in this data.
- We clean the data with our tools, convert to a single format and collect in .csv.
- We publish the ready-made reference book in open access.
To get the final guide, you can not leave your data. We will share it with everyone, take it even now .
If you share the unit that issued the passport, bring the completion of the project closer. We will polish the final guide to the brilliance and collapse complex doubles.
We will report on progress
All this is an experiment. We do not know what will happen. Maybe no one will just share the data, then nothing will come of the venture. And even more so, we do not know how long we will be collecting the directory.
But what we are committed to doing is reporting on Twitter . Every day is unlikely, but we will certainly inform you about important milestones. We will tell about the results of the experiment here too.
According to our estimates, there are less than 10,000 units issuing passports in the country. This is quite a bit, after all. Let's try to collect them.
UPD: Gathered!
Thanks to users of "Habr" and other not indifferent people! We collected the first version of the directory for 16.5 thousand records.
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