Quoting Jim Cheetham <[email protected]>:

> On Wed, May 4, 2011 at 10:25 PM, Wesley Parish
> <[email protected]> wrote:
> > I've just started a Java project - Smartphone Citycare is its
> provisional name:
> > it's GPL v3 - to turn a smartphone into a city damage reporting tool.
> (I got the
> 
> This would work with something like http://fixmystreet.org.nz/ ?

it might. I was thinking of something to plug directly into the City Council
database - GIS preferably - with details such as photos of reported damage
(burst mains, fallen trees, cracks in the road, rockfalls, etc), GPS location, 
etc.

Everything you should be able to do with your bog-standard smartphone.
> 
> > I'm just wondering which online hosting service - Sourceforge,
> Savannah, or
> > Google - people would recommend, and what "war stories" they have.
> 
> Sourceforge has always worked, but it's a bit boring. Potentially
> uglier these days due to feature creep. Savannah seems to have too few
> features, but that's only an impression. Google Code seems to be
> littered with abandoned code already, I guess it doesn't help build a
> community enough. Github is ... mmm, some people like it because it
> makes contributions easier by encouraging git forking, but if that's
> not your primary aim I probably wouldn't bother ...
> 
> -jim
> 
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