Just like FOI is a good thing, councils should be forced to publish an RSS link of their pot hole reports and other such items.
Then you can mash them into fix my street or its equivalent. It's only by being open can change be forced on them On 25 January 2011 14:46, Matthew Somerville <[email protected]> wrote: > On 25/01/2011 14:26, Seb Bacon wrote: >> >> There's been discussion recently about adding new categorisation tags >> to reports; why don't we offer to add a "potholes" tag especially for >> Glasgow Council so the right team gets the information as soon as >> possible?! > > I'm not sure what you mean - if the user selects Potholes as the category > (which they can do anywhere, not just Glasgow), then the message to the > council already includes that information, yes. New tags you refer to were > about report status, beyond just open and fixed. > > All reports ask the recipient to get in touch if there's a better place to > send the report; someone at Glasgow did at some point last year, and as far > as I'm aware, didn't tell us to change what we are currently doing. > > Their spokesman in the article is correct, you obviously need to take into > account size/amount of roads at the least before you can do any sort of > comparison. > > ATB, > Matthew > > _______________________________________________ > developers-public mailing list > [email protected] > https://secure.mysociety.org/admin/lists/mailman/listinfo/developers-public > > Unsubscribe: > https://secure.mysociety.org/admin/lists/mailman/options/developers-public/nickle%40gmail.com > -- Nick _______________________________________________ developers-public mailing list [email protected] https://secure.mysociety.org/admin/lists/mailman/listinfo/developers-public Unsubscribe: https://secure.mysociety.org/admin/lists/mailman/options/developers-public/archive%40mail-archive.com
