Ranked shortlist · 10 of 23 taxi and rideshare services
Best taxi and rideshare services in Istanbul
The 10 most notable taxi and rideshare services in Istanbul, in rank order. The order is curation quality — how well attested and how complete each record is — not popularity, and no place on this list paid to be on it.
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1
Limousine Plus-Luxury Chauffeur Service
Kaptanpaşa Mh, Reis Sk. No:33
listed by Meta and Overture Maps Foundation · record has a website, a phone and an address · Overture confidence 0.98 · rank score 2.407, percentile 100 of 23
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2
Ozmen Taxi
Nadide Cd. no:51
listed by Meta and Overture Maps Foundation · record has a website, a phone and an address · Overture confidence 0.97 · rank score 2.317, percentile 95.45 of 23
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3
kale taksi İstoç
İSTOÇ Oto Ticaret Mrk. B Blok No:1
listed by Meta and Overture Maps Foundation · record has a website, a phone and an address · Overture confidence 0.97 · rank score 2.290, percentile 90.91 of 23
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4
Kandilli Iskelesi
Kandilli Cd.
listed by Meta and Overture Maps Foundation · record has a website, a phone and an address · Overture confidence 0.97 · rank score 2.283, percentile 86.36 of 23
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5
OĞUZ TAKSİ
HALKALI MERKEZ MAH DEREBOYU CAD 1215 SOK NO 1
listed by Meta and Overture Maps Foundation · record has a website, a phone and an address · Overture confidence 0.96 · rank score 2.229, percentile 81.82 of 23
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6
Transorient Global Logistics INC.
Vadi İstanbul – Ayazağa Mah. Azerbaycan Cad. 1B Blok No:3B K:14 Ofis:33 34396 Sarıyer/İstanbul
listed by Meta and Overture Maps Foundation · record has a website, a phone and an address · Overture confidence 0.96 · rank score 2.203, percentile 77.27 of 23
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7
Adıyaman Ünal Turizm
Esenler Otogarı
listed by Meta and Overture Maps Foundation · record has a website, a phone and an address · Overture confidence 0.95 · rank score 2.120, percentile 72.73 of 23
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8
Taksinet AŞ
Hürriyet Mahallesi Dumlupınar Caddesi Yanyolu No:38
listed by Microsoft and Overture Maps Foundation · record has a website, a phone and an address · Overture confidence 0.94 · rank score 2.054, percentile 68.18 of 23
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9
Gunaydin Taksi
Küçük Bebek Cd. No:140
listed by Meta and Overture Maps Foundation · record has a website, a phone and an address · Overture confidence 0.94 · rank score 2.007, percentile 63.64 of 23
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10
İstanbul Evleri Taksi Durağı
Bozkır Sokak 1
listed by Meta and Overture Maps Foundation · record has a website, a phone and an address · Overture confidence 0.93 · rank score 1.995, percentile 59.09 of 23
How this list is made
Every place in this group was scored by the same model, with each term z-normalised inside the group and capped, so a famous chain cannot win by being famous everywhere. The weights, verbatim:
- attestation by independent providers
- +0.35
- record completeness (website, phone, address)
- +0.25
- Overture existence confidence
- +0.20
- Michelin designation (Wikidata, CC0)
- +0.40
- brand fame (Wikidata sitelinks)
- −0.15
- same-name chain collision
- −0.30
Curation quality, not popularity: how well attested and how complete a record is.
No licensable popularity signal; this ranks curation quality, not taste
Independent check: 5,951 places listed in Wikivoyage (CC BY-SA 4.0; validation only, never published or scored) were matched to our records by name within 250 m. Across the 5,651 that fall in groups of at least 10, the median matched place sits at percentile 73 and 24.2% are in the top decile, against 10% by chance; five families have enough anchors to report (arts, food and drink, lodging, shopping, sport), while health care (5), lifestyle services (17), travel (26) have too few and are not validated. A match needs both the guide and the catalogue to name the same place, which favours well-attested places — a term this rank itself rewards — so these are lower bounds; Michelin's 528 in-group anchors have a median percentile of 100, but that is partly circular: across the Wikivoyage matches, the 17 that also carry the designation term this rank scores sit at 99.93, against 72.55 for the 5,934 without it.
The catalogue carries no rating, review count, price or opening hours, so this file has none.
Nobody paid for placement: no ads, no sponsored results, no ratings for sale.
Data: AllThePlaces (CC0-1.0), BrightQuery (CDLA-Permissive-2.0), DAC (CDLA-Permissive-2.0), Foursquare Open Source Places (Apache-2.0), Meta (CDLA-Permissive-2.0), Microsoft (CDLA-Permissive-2.0), Overture Maps Foundation (CDLA-Permissive-2.0), PinMeTo (CDLA-Permissive-2.0), RenderSEO (CDLA-Permissive-2.0).