[okfn-labs] okfn-labs Digest, Vol 25, Issue 5

Thu Feb 7 16:06:26 UTC 2013

Interesting!!

A few little tweaks could make it a very useful generic container for all kinds of reporting...

On Feb 7, 2013, at 7:00 AM, okfn-labs-request at lists.okfn.org wrote:

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>   1. Re: Fwd: Open Waste Disposal (Maarten)
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> Date: Wed, 6 Feb 2013 14:10:28 +0100
> From: Maarten <maartenhoedjes at gmail.com>
> Subject: Re: [okfn-labs] Fwd: Open Waste Disposal
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> On 6 February 2013 14:04, Maarten <maartenhoedjes at gmail.com> wrote:
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>> Hi Marian,
>> 
>> Thanks for your suggestion. It's meant for regular waste collection at
>> home and locations of landfills -- stuff like that. Places and times where
>> garbage *should* be, not where it shouldn't!
>> 
>> Think about a calendar that notifies you when it's time to put bulky waste
>> on the street, or a map that shows you where the glass bins are.
>> 
>> Maarten
>> 
>> 
>> On 6 February 2013 12:57, Marian Steinbach <marian at sendung.de> wrote:
>> 
>>> Is this an "issue report" app like "someone dumped trash in the field"
>>> or are you collecting locations where people can officially get rid of
>>> garbage?
>>> 
>>> In the first case, I would recommend to have a look at the Open311
>>> GeoReport API.
>>> http://wiki.open311.org/GeoReport_v2
>>> 
>>> There are several implementations both for the server and client side.
>>> 
>>> Marian
>>> 
>>> 2013/2/6 Joris Pekel <joris.pekel at okfn.org>:
>>>> 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) 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
>>> 
>> 
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> Date: Wed, 6 Feb 2013 20:03:38 +0100
> From: Marian Steinbach <marian at sendung.de>
> Subject: Re: [okfn-labs] Fwd: Open Waste Disposal
> To: Maarten <maartenhoedjes at gmail.com>
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> OK, got it. Can't be of much help then.
> 
> Funny: Just yesterday I released a JSON file including dates for the trash
> pickup service for Cologne, Germany. But it's not worth looking into it,
> since it's 100% custom made for the situation in Cologne. Even week days
> are spelled out in German. :/
> 
> Marian
> 
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> 2013/2/6 Maarten <maartenhoedjes at gmail.com>
> 
>> Hi Marian,
>> 
>> Thanks for your suggestion. It's meant for regular waste collection at
>> home and locations of landfills -- stuff like that. Places and times where
>> garbage *should* be, not where it shouldn't!
>> 
>> Think about a calendar that notifies you when it's time to put bulky waste
>> on the street, or a map that shows you where the glass bins are.
>> 
>> Maarten
>> 
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