blog/data/2011-04-03-fiksgatami.txt

   1 Title: A Norwegian FixMyStreet have kept me busy the last few weeks
   2 Tags: english, fiksgatami, kart, debian
   3 Date: 2011-04-03 22:50
   4
   5 <p>Here is a small update for my English readers.  Most of my blog
   6 posts have been in Norwegian the last few weeks, so here is a short
   7 update in English.</p>
   8
   9 <p>The kids still keep me too busy to get much free software work
  10 done, but I did manage to organise a project to get a Norwegian port
  11 of the British service
  12 <a href="http://www.fixmystreet.com/">FixMyStreet</a> up and running,
  13 and it has been running for a month now.  The entire project has been
  14 organised by me and two others.  Around Christmas we gathered sponsors
  15 to fund the development work.  In January I drafted a contract with
  16 <a href="http://www.mysociety.org/">mySociety</a> on what to develop,
  17 and in February the development took place.  Most of it involved
  18 converting the source to use GPS coordinates instead of British
  19 easting/northing, and the resulting code should be a lot easier to get
  20 running in any country by now.  The Norwegian
  21 <a href="http://www.fiksgatami.no/">FiksGataMi</a> is using
  22 <a href="http://www.openstreetmap.org/">OpenStreetmap</a> as the map
  23 source and the source for administrative borders in Norway, and
  24 support for this had to be added/fixed.</p>
  25
  26 <p>The Norwegian version went live March 3th, and we spent the weekend
  27 polishing the system before we announced it March 7th.  The system is
  28 running on a KVM instance of Debian/Squeeze, and has seen almost 3000
  29 problem reports in a few weeks.  Soon we hope to announce the Android
  30 and iPhone versions making it even easier to report problems with the
  31 public infrastructure.</p>
  32
  33 <p>Perhaps something to consider for those of you in countries without
  34 such service?</p>