Ranked shortlist · 10 of 71 taxi and rideshare services
Best taxi and rideshare services in London
The 10 most notable taxi and rideshare services in London, 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
Rex Cross
44-46 Caledonian Rd
148 m from King's Cross Thameslink railway station, rail
listed by Meta and Overture Maps Foundation · record has a website, a phone and an address · Overture confidence 0.99 · rank score 2.311, percentile 100 of 71
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2
Synergy Car Hire
Kemp House, 152 – 160 City Road
160 m from Old Street station, metro
listed by Microsoft and Overture Maps Foundation · record has a website, a phone and an address · Overture confidence 0.99 · rank score 2.285, percentile 98.57 of 71
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3
Worshipful Company of Spectacle Makers
Apothecaries' Hall, Blackfriars Lane
59 m from Blackfriars tube station, metro
listed by Microsoft and Overture Maps Foundation · record has a website, a phone and an address · Overture confidence 0.99 · rank score 2.274, percentile 97.14 of 71
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4
Minicab.com Croydon
Unit 13, Suffolk House, College Rd
294 m from East Croydon railway station, rail
listed by Meta and Overture Maps Foundation · record has a website, a phone and an address · Overture confidence 0.98 · rank score 2.235, percentile 95.71 of 71
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5
City Inter Rent
Poplar Place
68 m from Bayswater tube station, metro
listed by Microsoft and Overture Maps Foundation · record has a website, a phone and an address · Overture confidence 0.98 · rank score 2.234, percentile 94.29 of 71
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6
Waterloo Cars
135 Mepham St
103 m from London Necropolis railway station, rail
listed by Meta and Overture Maps Foundation · record has a website, a phone and an address · Overture confidence 0.98 · rank score 2.220, percentile 92.86 of 71
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7
Atlas Cars of London
796-798 Fulham Road
411 m from Putney Bridge tube station, metro
listed by Microsoft and Overture Maps Foundation · record has a website, a phone and an address · Overture confidence 0.98 · rank score 2.184, percentile 91.43 of 71
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8
AZ Luxe
Az Luxe, 412A Edgware Road
301 m from Edgware Road, rail
listed by Microsoft and Overture Maps Foundation · record has a website, a phone and an address · Overture confidence 0.98 · rank score 2.183, percentile 90 of 71
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9
S&S Prestige Services
4 West Court, Inderwick Road
651 m from Hornsey railway station, rail
listed by Microsoft and Overture Maps Foundation · record has a website, a phone and an address · Overture confidence 0.97 · rank score 2.122, percentile 88.57 of 71
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10
Station Cars Tooting
100 Upper Tooting Road
364 m from Tooting Bec, metro
listed by Microsoft and Overture Maps Foundation · record has a website, a phone and an address · Overture confidence 0.97 · rank score 2.112, percentile 87.14 of 71
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.
Station locations from Wikidata (CC0-1.0). Nearest station, not service: no frequency, timetable or departures.
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).