On 19 September 2012 13:13, Maya Forstater <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi > > It feels a little rude to jump into this list with a request for help, > so apologies, but here goes. > > I am (amongst other things) an active contributor to the Mumsnet > forum. The forum members site were recently asked to contribute to > the Cross Party Inquiry on Unwanted Pregnancy in the UK which is aimed > at grounding UK strategy on abortion and contraception on evidence, > health and social priorities and avoid it becoming highjacked by > religious agendas - > (http://m.guardian.co.uk/world/2012/jul/12/sexual-health-inquiry-abortion-debate?). > > The request has led to a rich but unstructured discussion on the site, > with one of the main conclusions being that some people still have a > hard time accessing contraception, because some GPs don't offer all > options, and some family planning clinics have severely limited hours > and long waits for appointments - but this seems to be very variable > around the country. > > What some of us thought would be useful and powerful, rather than > continue to have an unstructured natter which doesn't lend itself to > feeding into the inquiry would be to build a little survey website > where people can put in their postcode and then answer 3-4 basic > questions rating aspects of their experience of accessing > contraception building an instant heat map of how easy it is to access > family planning services around the country, perhaps combined with a > feature where people can add longer stories about their experience.
I'd suggest an easy way to capture this information would be to create a Google Spreadsheet and then use their forms to let people add data to it. Once added you could use the maps gadget to plot the results (this will deal with the postcode to location mapping for you). More detailed analysis may require other tools, but this is certainly a good place to start. I'd suggest working out what it is you want to display and then making sure that the data gathered is easy to use to do that - so for example create a list of options for people to choose from (like 'yes', 'no', 'limited hours', etc) rather than allowing free text entry. links: Google forms: http://www.google.com/google-d-s/forms/ map gadget: http://support.google.com/docs/bin/answer.py?hl=en&answer=99488 Or, as others have suggested, Ushahidi might be a better fit. Cheers, Edmund. > My guess is that someone with the technical nous could build a quicky > site like this pretty easily using Mapit and other bits of existing > kit. Unfortunately I am not that person (although keen to learn!). > They are looking for written evidence in September-October so it is > really is something to be done quickly or not at all. > > Would anyone be willing have a go at knocking this up (as it were...) > just for the glory? > > Thanks in advance. > > Maya Forstater > > _______________________________________________ > 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/edmund.vonderburg%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/archive%40mail-archive.com
