On 30/10/17 12:05, Lester Caine wrote:
Yep ... fixmystreet is not working with the right authorities and is a
pain to find the right location anyway. Looking to overlay the website
location map with the sort of facilities a parish council looks after.
I'm not aware that any of the council alternatives use any more council
specific mapping, although I know that some councils do have online
mapping of land maintained at public expense (which I don't think they
use for their fly tip reporting systems). (One of the problems with fly
tip reporting is that the general public doesn't understand that
councils are not responsible for clearing back alleys and the parts of
the pavement that are really unfenced private forecourts of shops. Not
that you can expect these to be mapped well on OSM, as I've come across
people who won't allow private alley's to be marked private unless
explicitly signed or gated.)
(Note "maintained at public expense" is not the same as access=yes.)
FMS does direct reports, according to the category, to the relevant
level of council (or sometimes both). That does depend on people
getting the right category, which they often don't do, but that is a
consequence of the relatively free format input.
I think one of the other issues that councils have with FMS is the libel
one, and evidence being tainted by being published. My council use
lovecleanstreets but don't allow any of the reports to be public. They
definitely make it clear that they don't want evidence in the public
domain, as it can make prosecutions difficult (e.g. finding independent
witnesses), and I think they are also concerned about people accusing
identifiable people of crime, or stereotyping communities.
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