[okfn-labs] Fwd: Open Waste Disposal

Wed Feb 6 11:57:56 UTC 2013

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