[NUUG fiksgatami] Accessing tile server

[Matthew Somerville]

selvam velmurugan wrote:
> Meanwhile, have you/Matthew heard of fixitottawa 
> (http://www.openottawa.org/category/fixit/) ?

Yes, only through screenshots and reports though, I don't think they've 
got in touch.

> They've implemented a fixmystreet like site (layout looks similar)
> and was wondering if they'd adopted mysociety's source code or built
> from ground up.

It's built from the ground up.

selvam velmurugan wrote:
> But when searching for an area (e.x. slough), I get 'Unable to fetch
> map tiles from the tile server' error.

The tile server simply serves the UK FixMyStreet very high scale maps 
(showing individual houses as you can see, so for local reporting better 
  than Google Maps, and works without JavaScript too) - it's of no use 
not in the UK, you will have to use your own maps of some sort.

> When I click on 'skip this step' in this page, I get forbidden error
> for http://services.mysociety.org/mapit

Similarly, MaPit is our internal service for matching UK postcodes to 
locations, and for matching locations to administrative areas (the error 
you're referring to is it trying to work out what council it's going to 
report to, to let the user know). It's not really of any use in a non-UK 
context, you will have to recreate the same functionality for your own 
location.

ATB,
Matthew