On 2 Aug 2011, at 17:53, Tim Green wrote: > I'm sure there's a sociologist going wild somewhere over 'FixMyStreet' vs. > 'FixYourStreet'. >
just don't go there. at Upmystreet we registered both because users and especially journalists couldn't get it right. even though we never ever said or marketed upyourstreet, 10-15% of our traffic was always to it. same with .com/.co.uk > -t > > On 02/08/2011 11:10, John Handelaar wrote: >> >> On 2 August 2011 10:57, Tom Steinberg <[email protected]> wrote: >> Hi Feargal, >> >> We've clocked this too! >> >> It's not the same codebase, and perhaps considerably more important it >> currently only covers one council, making it much more analagous to >> LoveCleanLewisham, which launched covering just one area too. >> >> >> This, incidentally, is the main new-thing I'm working on. >> >> Complete lack of email destinations to send reports to, though - and by >> design, because at least one council has made it extremely clear that such >> reports are *not welcome at all*. Mostly they're mucking about with things >> like this in anticipation of the DoE handing down a 'thou shalt >> fixthystreet' edict at some point before 2015, because building it was in >> the new coalition's programme for government. >> >> On the basis that left to its own devices our government would in fact build >> not fixmystreet, but 34 copies of this abomination (turns out I >> was right), am currently working on a FMS install that recasts councils as >> council *wards* and bugs the local councillors instead, FMS-Canada-style. >> >> Needed (and any help welcome): >> >> 1. As many more of these scrapers as possible to fill in the gaps in the >> TODO list: >> http://scraperwiki.com/scrapers/ie_councillors_all/ >> >> 2. Am currently walking through the most recent secondary legislation on >> electoral boundaries to assign all ~3400 electoral divisions to the right >> 'parent' constituency/council constituency/Euro objects in mapit. >> >> >> Sooner we can get 1) sorted, the sooner I can push this thing out of the >> door. Aiming for late-Sept. >> >> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> 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/timothy.green%40gmail.com > > _______________________________________________ > 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/stefan%40whitelabel.org -- /* Stefan Magdalinski +27 82 0431230 (SA) +254 710 103500 (KE) +234 816 5706119 (NG) Where am I?: http://is.gd/uu4RUc smagdali (IM/twitter/flickr/dopplr/skype/etc) */
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