Hi Trev fixmystreet.com is a mysociety project and they're generally quite open with their source code. I've mailed to ask them if they'll make it available. If not I might be able to hack something together for SA. There's definitely a need for it.
J. 2009/9/29 Trevor Hughes <[email protected]>: > > > On Tue, Sep 29, 2009 at 11:56 AM, Fran <[email protected]> wrote: >> >> Not related to potholes but in similar vein. >> >> I'm not sure what they are called but the long strips of metal that >> cover drains on pavements have been removed (stolen) from parts of >> Obs. The hole left is dangerous enough as it is because one can twist >> one's ankle but now it is getting worse because weeds are growing out >> of them, making them even harder to see. I almost hurt myself the >> other day when I stepped into one of them. Do you know if anything is >> being done, if anything, to repair these? >> > > What we need is something like http://www.fixmystreet.com/ for Obs and Cape > Town > > A picture is worth a thousand words, but we need a centralized database of > problems that we can see the progress of. The city council does have such a > internal system and you can follow stuff up if you get a number. In my road > I can see some newly fixed cover drains - they put in a pvc pipe and tar > over it. But then there are others on the street that are missing. > > Maybe we can start a simple website similar to fixmystreet. > > Jonathan? > > Trev > > > > -- Jonathan Endersby +27 82 4143129 www.arbitraryuser.com --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "The Observatory Neighbourhood watch" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/obsnw?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
