X-Git-Url: http://pere.pagekite.me/gitweb/homepage.git/blobdiff_plain/e224ee5d1363b2f231a17f6d300bde18fe98dc79..035c19c46c9f78dc6adf515b8418f9d0b55c709d:/blog/data/2011-04-03-fiksgatami.txt diff --git a/blog/data/2011-04-03-fiksgatami.txt b/blog/data/2011-04-03-fiksgatami.txt index 1e4b4beca0..dbe061de96 100644 --- a/blog/data/2011-04-03-fiksgatami.txt +++ b/blog/data/2011-04-03-fiksgatami.txt @@ -1,25 +1,27 @@ -Title: A Norwegian fixmystreet have kept me busy the last few weeks +Title: A Norwegian FixMyStreet have kept me busy the last few weeks Tags: english, fiksgatami, kart, debian -Date: 2011-04-03 23:00 +Date: 2011-04-03 22:50

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.

The kids still keep me too busy to get much free software work -done, but I did manage to organize a project to get a Norwegian port +done, but I did manage to organise a project to get a Norwegian port of the British service FixMyStreet up and running, -and it has been running for a month now. Around Christmas I gathered -sponsors to fund the development work. In january I drafted a -contract with mySociety on what to develop, and in february the -development took place. Most of it involved converting the source to -use GPS coordinates instead of British easting/northing, and the -resulting code should be a lot easier to get running in any country by -now. The Norwegian FiksGataMi -is using OpenStreetmap as -the map source and the source for administrative borders in Norway, -and support for this had to be added/fixed.

+and it has been running for a month now. The entire project has been +organised by me and two others. Around Christmas we gathered sponsors +to fund the development work. In January I drafted a contract with +mySociety on what to develop, +and in February the development took place. Most of it involved +converting the source to use GPS coordinates instead of British +easting/northing, and the resulting code should be a lot easier to get +running in any country by now. The Norwegian +FiksGataMi is using +OpenStreetmap as the map +source and the source for administrative borders in Norway, and +support for this had to be added/fixed.

The Norwegian version went live March 3th, and we spent the weekend polishing the system before we announced it March 7th. The system is