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Entries from April 2011.

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Here is a small update for my English readers. Most of my blog +

Entries from April 2011.

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+ A Norwegian FixMyStreet have kept me busy the last few weeks +
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Here is a small update for my English readers. Most of my blog posts have been in Norwegian the last few weeks, so here is a short update in English.

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Perhaps something to consider for those of you in countries without such service?

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I dag ligger an til å bli en trist dag for Norge. I dag skal etter +

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+ I dag skal Stortinget votere over datalagringsdirektivet +
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I dag ligger an til å bli en trist dag for Norge. I dag skal etter planen Stortinget stemme over om det skal innføres elektronisk brev- og besøkskontroll for hele folket, og Arbeiderpartiet og Høyre utgjør et flertall som har annonsert at de er enige om at dette skal gjøres. @@ -197,28 +194,26 @@ er noen aktuelle lenker, både nye og gamle:

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The Gnash project is still +

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The Gnash project is still the most promising solution for a Free Software Flash implementation. A few days ago the project announced @@ -226,28 +221,26 @@ that it will participate in Google Summer of Code. I hope many students apply, and that some of them succeed in getting AVM2 support into Gnash.

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Neste mann ut er Marius Kotsbak, styremedlem i +

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Neste mann ut er Marius Kotsbak, styremedlem i FRISK og mangeårig bidragsyter i Skolelinux-prosjektet.

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+ FiksGataMi - fylkesoversikt på kart +
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+ 15th April 2011 +
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Det er morsomt å følge med hvordan bruken av FiksGataMi sprer seg +over det ganske land. Her er lenkene til fylkesoversikt på kart over +de (for tiden) 200 siste problemene. Bruker her GeoRSS-kilden i +FiksGataMi og presenterer enten via Google Maps eller en +GeoRSS-fremviser jeg fant for OpenStreetmap.

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Antall problemer returnert i GeoRSS-kildene justeres over tid etter +hvert som vi får mer erfaring med hvilken belastning det gir på +tjenesten.

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Oppdatering 2011-04-27: Endret URL til fylker med mellomrom i +navnene fra %20 til %2B, slik at de fungerer i flere nettlesere.

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+ Initial notes on adding Open311 server API on FixMyStreet +
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The last few days I have spent some time trying to add support for +the Open311 API in the +Norwegian FixMyStreet service. +Earlier I believed Open311 would be a useful API to use to submit +reports to the municipalities, but when I noticed that the +New Zealand version of +FixMyStreet had implemented Open311 on the server side, it occurred to +me that this was a nice way to allow the public, press and +municipalities to do data mining directly in the FixMyStreet service. +Thus I went to work implementing the Open311 specification for +FixMyStreet. The implementation is not yet ready, but I am starting +to get a draft limping along. In the process, I have discovered a few +issues with the Open311 specification.

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One obvious missing feature is the lack of natural language +handling in the specification. The specification seem to assume all +reports will be written in English, and do not provide a way for the +receiving end to specify which languages are understood there. To be +able to use the same client and submit to several Open311 receivers, +it would be useful to know which language to use when writing reports. +I believe the specification should be extended to allow the receivers +of problem reports to specify which language they accept, and the +submitter to specify which language the report is written in. +Language of a text can also be automatically guessed using statistical +methods, but for multi-lingual persons like myself, it is useful to +know which language to use when writing a problem report. I suspect +some lang=nb,nn kind of attribute would solve it.

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A key part of the Open311 API is the list of services provided, +which is similar to the categories used by FixMyStreet. One issue I +run into is the need to specify both name and unique identifier for +each category. The specification do not state that the identifier +should be numeric, but all example implementations have used numbers +here. In FixMyStreet, there is no number associated with each +category. As the specification do not forbid it, I will use the name +as the unique identifier for now and see how open311 clients handle +it.

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The report format in open311 and the report format in FixMyStreet +differ in a key part. FixMyStreet have a title and a description, +while Open311 only have a description and lack the title. I'm not +quite sure how to best handle this yet. When asking for a FixMyStreet +report in Open311 format, I just merge title an description into the +open311 description, but this is not going to work if the open311 API +should be used for submitting new reports to FixMyStreet.

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The search feature in Open311 is missing a way to ask for problems +near a geographic location. I believe this is important if one is to +use Open311 as the query language for mobile units. The specification +should be extended to handle this, probably using some new lat=, lon= +and range= options.

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The final challenge I see is that the FixMyStreet code handle +several administrations in one interface, while the Open311 API seem +to assume only one administration. For FixMyStreet, this mean a +report can be sent to several administrations, and the categories +available depend on the location of the problem. Not quite sure how +to best handle this. I've noticed +SeeClickFix added +latitude and longitude options to the services request, but it do not +solve the problem of what to return when no location is specified. +Will have to investigate this a bit more.

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My distaste for web forums have kept me from bringing these issues +up with the open311 developer group. I really wish they had a email +list available via Gmane to use for +discussions instead of only +a forum. Oh, +well. That will probably resolve itself, one way or another. I've +also tried visiting the IRC channel #open311 on FreeNode, but no-one +seem to reply to my questions there. This make me wonder if I just +fail to understand how the open311 community work. It sure do not +work like the free software project communities I am used to.

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+ Experimental Open311 API for the mySociety fixmystreet system +
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+ 30th April 2011 +
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Today, the first draft implementation of an +Open311 API for the Norwegian +service FiksGataMi started to +work. It is only available on the developer server for now, and I +have not tested it using any existing Open311 client (I lack the +platforms needed to run the clients I have found so far), but it is +able to query the database and extract a list of open and closed +requests within a given category and reported to a given municipality. +I believe that is a good start to create a useful service for those +that want to do data mining on the requests submitted so far.

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Where is it? Visit +http://fiksgatami-dev.nuug.no/open311.cgi/v2/ +to have a look. Please send feedback to the +fiksgatami +(at) nuug.no mailing list.

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