[okfn-labs] Fwd: Open Waste Disposal

Wed Feb 6 13:10:28 UTC 2013

On 6 February 2013 14:04, Maarten <maartenhoedjes at gmail.com> wrote:

> 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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