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Fix My Street
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“Fix My Street” helps people view and discuss local problems they have found and report them to their local council simply by locating the problem on a map or taking advantage of GPS in smartphones.
After entering a postcode or location, users are presented with a map of the area. They can view problems already reported in the area or report ones of their own simply by clicking on the map at the location of the problem.
Problems are reported to the relevant council by e-mail. The council can then resolve the problem in the way they normally would. Alternatively, users may discuss the problem with others on the website and then get together to lobby the council to fix it, or fix it directly themselves.
We sought to use the benefits that Internet technologies could bring to local communities and build a simple service that allows people across the UK to report common local problems such as graffiti, broken street lights, leaking pipes etc. by sticking a pin in the map. What makes it different is that it will provide a public place where users can see what has been reported by other users, make comments on what’s going on, and subscribe to alerts when new developments occur. With £10,000 from the Department of Constitutional Affairs (now the Ministry of Justice), maps from Ordnance Survey and time from our core developers, we mixed up some open-source technologies (Yahoo’s JavaScript libraries, Perl and PostgreSQL), wrote new functionality to cut up the map tiles from the OS originals and put together a website allowing people to report local problems to their council by clicking on a map.
Links: http://www.fixmystreet.com
After entering a postcode or location, users are presented with a map of the area. They can view problems already reported in the area or report ones of their own simply by clicking on the map at the location of the problem.
Problems are reported to the relevant council by e-mail. The council can then resolve the problem in the way they normally would. Alternatively, users may discuss the problem with others on the website and then get together to lobby the council to fix it, or fix it directly themselves.
We sought to use the benefits that Internet technologies could bring to local communities and build a simple service that allows people across the UK to report common local problems such as graffiti, broken street lights, leaking pipes etc. by sticking a pin in the map. What makes it different is that it will provide a public place where users can see what has been reported by other users, make comments on what’s going on, and subscribe to alerts when new developments occur. With £10,000 from the Department of Constitutional Affairs (now the Ministry of Justice), maps from Ordnance Survey and time from our core developers, we mixed up some open-source technologies (Yahoo’s JavaScript libraries, Perl and PostgreSQL), wrote new functionality to cut up the map tiles from the OS originals and put together a website allowing people to report local problems to their council by clicking on a map.
Links: http://www.fixmystreet.com
FixMyStreet is a site to help people report, view, or discuss local problems they’ve found to their local council simply by locating them on a map. It launched in early 2007, and since then has grown to host over 95,000 reports, with over 1,000 reports now being made per week.
Fix My Street was launched in Britain in early February 2007 and has subsequently been adapted to create foreign versions in places as far apart as Brazil, New Zealand and South Korea. This site was built by mySociety, in conjunction with the Young Foundation. mySociety is the project of a registered charity, which has grown out of the community of volunteers who built sites such as TheyWorkForYou.com.