[okfn-labs] Fwd: Open Waste Disposal

Wed Feb 6 11:21:03 UTC 2013

Hi dear Labs people,

See the enquiry below by Maarten. Would be great if you can advice him on
how to get started.
Love to see this happening!

All the best,

Joris

---------- Forwarded message ----------
From: Maarten <maartenhoedjes at gmail.com>
Date: 2013/2/6
Subject: Open Waste Disposal
To: getinvolved at okfn.org

(I almost named this e-mail 'Open Garbage', which would be a good title for
a hate mail.)

Hello,

I am Maarten Trompper. I recently made a little app
(here<https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=net.blackenvelope.utrechtafval&hl=nl>)
that displays all waste points in the municipality of Utrecht, the
Netherlands. I am greatly expanding the horizon of this app, because I want
to commercialize it and sell a white-boxed version to municipalities.

Part of my project is to also make a website. I think open data is very
important, so I was planning to make a data portal that makes all data
freely available, while commercializing the apps. And since OKFN
specializes in open data management, maybe we could work together on this.
Could you give me any tips? I could really use some guidance. I was
planning to use CKAN for content management and the API. I also wrote a
little XML language to formalize waste collection schedules and am now
working on a way for non-programmers within the municipality to add and
manage their 'waste zones'.

I want to do it very right, because the way that most open data is managed
now in the Netherlands is that government bodies all just makes a huge data
dump in their own format, using their own standards, and place it on a very
obscure website and developers can't really work with it. It would be nice
to have a uniform way of storing this data!

Thanks and sincerely,
Maarten Trompper

-- 
Joris Pekel
Community Coordinator
Open Knowledge Foundation
http://okfn.org
http://twitter.com/jpekel
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