[Open-Legislation] byelaws

Fri Oct 25 08:33:22 UTC 2013

Hi Graeme,

I think geolocation and the image processing idea are interesting. But I think there's a long way to go. We first need to capture our legislation in a way that allows machines to understand that a piece of legislation is associated with a geographical area or a "hedge" or a "car" etc.

At least in South Africa, we need to start with basic access to legislation.

Greg

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On 24 October 2013 at 3:50:34 PM, Graeme Jones (jonesiom at gmail.com) wrote:

Hi Greg

I was at the meetup in Geneva and I have been looking at byelaws in my local authority in the Isle of Man.  They had the Town Charter and most of the byelaws in a recently consolidated statutory document but I searched the national secondary legislation index and noted 5000+ statutory documents only relevant to my local authority - although mostly temporary expired or revoked!

I have been thinking about filtered legislation by geolocation and by interactive image processing....
Click on a garden hedge on screen via a smartphone camera and it lists hedges legislation, etc.

Best regards,
Graeme Jones MBCS
Project Manager, Isle of Man Parliament
    oldest continuous parliament in the world
International Director, British Computer Society
    Royal Chartered IT professional body
Founder, openmindedly
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