[okfn-labs] Fwd: Open Waste Disposal

[Marian Steinbach]

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