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   4                 <title>Petter Reinholdtsen - Entries from April 2011</title>
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  10                 <title>A Norwegian FixMyStreet have kept me busy the last few weeks</title>
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  13                 <pubDate>Sun, 3 Apr 2011 22:50:00 +0200</pubDate>
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  15 &lt;p&gt;Here is a small update for my English readers.  Most of my blog
  16 posts have been in Norwegian the last few weeks, so here is a short
  17 update in English.&lt;/p&gt;
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  19 &lt;p&gt;The kids still keep me too busy to get much free software work
  20 done, but I did manage to organise a project to get a Norwegian port
  21 of the British service
  22 &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.fixmystreet.com/&quot;&gt;FixMyStreet&lt;/a&gt; up and running,
  23 and it has been running for a month now.  The entire project has been
  24 organised by me and two others.  Around Christmas we gathered sponsors
  25 to fund the development work.  In January I drafted a contract with
  26 &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.mysociety.org/&quot;&gt;mySociety&lt;/a&gt; on what to develop,
  27 and in February the development took place.  Most of it involved
  28 converting the source to use GPS coordinates instead of British
  29 easting/northing, and the resulting code should be a lot easier to get
  30 running in any country by now.  The Norwegian
  31 &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.fiksgatami.no/&quot;&gt;FiksGataMi&lt;/a&gt; is using
  32 &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.openstreetmap.org/&quot;&gt;OpenStreetmap&lt;/a&gt; as the map
  33 source and the source for administrative borders in Norway, and
  34 support for this had to be added/fixed.&lt;/p&gt;
  35
  36 &lt;p&gt;The Norwegian version went live March 3th, and we spent the weekend
  37 polishing the system before we announced it March 7th.  The system is
  38 running on a KVM instance of Debian/Squeeze, and has seen almost 3000
  39 problem reports in a few weeks.  Soon we hope to announce the Android
  40 and iPhone versions making it even easier to report problems with the
  41 public infrastructure.&lt;/p&gt;
  42
  43 &lt;p&gt;Perhaps something to consider for those of you in countries without
  44 such service?&lt;/p&gt;
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