License Calculator:
This is fascinating, and worth a look right away. WTSP Tampa's Teresa Moore passed this on to Al Tompkins, who posted it on his Morning Meeting site: Unique ID. This lets you put in a name and DoB and get a Florida driver license number. Or put in a number and get a name. Hmm.
I know it should work, because before driver licenses came online (when Florida put them on Compuserve) we worked with microfiche records, and you had to know the Soundex algorithm to figure out what someone's license number might be. It's a standard code that attaches numbers to letter sounds (so p and b have the same number since they sound alike), skips vowels, and then adds part of the DoB to the final license number. You could figure out anyone's license number, or name, without this program if you had the algorithm.
A few other states are available too, as well as a page that gives you the Soundex code.
Is this valuable? Nahhh. How often are you going to have someone's driver license number, or their complete name and date of birth, and need the number? But, it's fun....
However, if you did have someone's date of birth, made this work and got a valid number, you could go on to the Florida HSMV site, put in the number and at least find out if the license is current...
This is fascinating, and worth a look right away. WTSP Tampa's Teresa Moore passed this on to Al Tompkins, who posted it on his Morning Meeting site: Unique ID. This lets you put in a name and DoB and get a Florida driver license number. Or put in a number and get a name. Hmm.
I know it should work, because before driver licenses came online (when Florida put them on Compuserve) we worked with microfiche records, and you had to know the Soundex algorithm to figure out what someone's license number might be. It's a standard code that attaches numbers to letter sounds (so p and b have the same number since they sound alike), skips vowels, and then adds part of the DoB to the final license number. You could figure out anyone's license number, or name, without this program if you had the algorithm.
A few other states are available too, as well as a page that gives you the Soundex code.
Is this valuable? Nahhh. How often are you going to have someone's driver license number, or their complete name and date of birth, and need the number? But, it's fun....
However, if you did have someone's date of birth, made this work and got a valid number, you could go on to the Florida HSMV site, put in the number and at least find out if the license is current...
posted by liz at
10:18 AM
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This is another example of things that freak people out because it's easy to find things about yourself if you know enough to find it. You can find your driver license number, but other people might not be able to unless they know your date of birth. You know how to find your house. I've been looking at photos of my rooftop for years, from county Websites, Mapquest, and Terraserver. So Google's not a surprise to me.
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