Short answer: a party functionary in Fine Gael snatched fixmystreet.ie last year and it's not available.
On 2 August 2011 17:53, Tim Green <[email protected]> wrote: > I'm sure there's a sociologist going wild somewhere over 'FixMyStreet' vs. > 'FixYourStreet'. > > -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. > > > > _______________________________________________ > developers-public mailing > [email protected]https://secure.mysociety.org/admin/lists/mailman/listinfo/developers-public > > > Unsubscribe: > https://secure.mysociety.org/admin/lists/mailman/options/developers-public/timothy.green%40gmail.com > > > > _______________________________________________ > developers-public mailing list > [email protected] > https://secure.mysociety.org/admin/lists/mailman/listinfo/developers-public > > Unsubscribe: > https://secure.mysociety.org/admin/lists/mailman/options/developers-public/john%40userfrenzy.com >
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