Hi all, I'll be taking this conversation off this thread now as it's no longer relevant, but just to say that I've chatted with the fixmystreet.com guys and they've pointed me to an open source implementation that would work well for us. ( http://github.com/visiblegovernment/django-fixmystreet )
I'll try and set something up asap. j. 2009/9/29 Jonathan Endersby <[email protected]>: > 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 > -- 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 -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
