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.
>> 
>> 
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