[NUUG fiksgatami] Adapting MySociety websites

[selvam velmurugan]

>
> > 1. Are you planning to replace the UK-specific co-ordinate system with
> > latitude/longitude (or something Norway-specific) ?
>
> I hope the mapping stuff will be done by someone else (another person
> on the team hope to find time to look at it).  The current idea is to
> switch to latitude/longitude and use OpenLayers to draw the map.


Switching to latitude/longitude would be beneficial for us as well.

A quick clarification OpenLayers. How does it fare against OpenStreetMap ?
Is it easier to OpenLayers or does it have additional features ?

> 2. Do you plan to implement a generic location-point to
> > council/ward/body mapping system ?
>
> We have not looked at this yet.  I assume we need to replace the UK
> specific mapit stuff, but do not know what is needed yet.  So nothing
> is planned so far, and we welcome help in fixing these parts.


Sounds good. We can begin focusing on replacing mapit with some generic
solution.

Shanmugam, our lead developer, will get in touch with you/team separately to
briefly discuss the plan later on. At present, he is stuck with installing
PostgreSQL on a RedHat host. Maybe, we may need to switch to a Debian host
if the issue does not get resolved by this week.

It's great to collaborate with you and the Norway team on this project :)

Cheers,
Selvam
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