Ah ha! The automatically generated address probably explains why Surrey County Council had immense difficulty understanding the location of my most recent problem report.
They first assigned it to Spelthorne, probably because someone read my description as Walton Bridge Road. Spelthorne immediately assigned it to Elmbridge because someone looked at it on the map. It then became a highways thing and got bounced between East and West Surrey as they couldn't decide which bit of Bridge Street it was in. I assume Bridge Street was the automatically generated address as it's nowhere near the location of the problem. Eventually someone decided they didn't have any money anyway and shelved it [1] Perhaps the automatically generated address could be presented to the user as well as the council. It explains why my council often responds very oddly to these problem reports. Etienne [1] Surrey County Council is Britain's first third world county. On Tue, Jul 28, 2009 at 12:43 PM, Dominic Pinto <[email protected]>wrote: > Oxfordshire County Council contacted me very prompltly on the problems I > reported .... work had already been done on one of the problems, and the > team would be out to check and do any work this week on the others. > > Sarah Aldous has asked if for example it would be possible to zoom on > the mapping or even better provide grid references. > > Once I had described to her when we spoke where the footpath was (in > relation to the Barley Mow and the airfield) she knew pretty well > exactly where this was - a matter of localised knowledge and visual > queues perhaps. > > Dominic > > -------- Original Message -------- > Subject: FW: Problem Report: Substantially Blocked PROW > Date: Fri, 24 Jul 2009 10:18:53 +0100 > From: Aldous, Sarah - Environment & Economy, Countryside Service > <[email protected]> > To: <[email protected]> > > > > Dear Dominic > > Thank you very much for the emails you sent yesterday. I am forwarding > one of the emails I received from Fixmystreet so that you can see what I > get. I can move around the map but it would be really helpful to be > able to zoom out to put the area in the context of a larger area. > Providing a grid reference rather than the nearest address which can be > miles away from some of our remote footpaths would also be helpful. > > Thank you also for sending the link to the photos, you have some really > lovely ones. > > Please let me know if I can be of further help. > > Regards > > Sarah > > Sarah Aldous > Rights of Way Field Officer - Northeast > > Oxfordshire County Council > Environment and Economy > Countryside Service > Holton > Oxford > OX33 1QQ > Tel: 01865 810222 > > >www.oxfordshire.gov.uk > > > Save money and paper - do you really need to print this email? > > -----Original Message----- > From: Cotton, Sarah - Environment & Economy - Sustainable Development On > Behalf Of E& E - Countryside Services > Sent: 22 July 2009 08:28 > To: Aldous, Sarah - Environment & Economy, Countryside Service > Subject: FW: Problem Report: Substantially Blocked PROW > > > > -----Original Message----- > From: Dominic Pinto [mailto:[email protected]] > Sent: 21 July 2009 12:35 > To: E& E - Countryside Services > Subject: Problem Report: Substantially Blocked PROW > > Dear Oxfordshire County Council, > > A user of FixMyStreet has submitted the following report of a > local problem that they believe might require your attention. > > To view a map of the precise location of this issue, or to > provide an update on the problem, please visit the following > link: > > http://www.fixmystreet.com/report/66646 > > This web page also contains a photo of the problem, provided by > the user. > > ---------- > > Name: Dominic Pinto > > Email: [email protected] > > Phone: 07803028268 > > Category: Public rights of way > > Subject: Substantially Blocked PROW > > Details: Densley overgrown and impossible to penetrate thorns > etc., prevent use of this footpath. Suggests several years of > not keeping reasonably clear. > > The closest address, as the crow flies, to the location of this > problem, 521m away, is: Thames Valley Police, Police Station, > 249 Heyford Park, Camp Road, Upper Heyford, Bicester, OX255HA - > please note that this is automatically generated, so ensure > that you check it against the details provided by the user and, > if possible, the map. > > ---------- > > Replies to this email will go to the user who submitted the > problem. > > Yours, > The FixMyStreet team > > [ This message was sent via FixMyStreet, a project of UKCOD, > registered charity number 1076346. If there is a more > appropriate email address for messages about 'Public rights of > way', please let us know by visiting > <http://www.fixmystreet.com/contact>. This will help improve > the service for local people. We also welcome any other > feedback you may have. ] > > This email, including attachments, may contain confidential information. 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