[NUUG fiksgatami] FixMystreet in Norway?

[Matthew Somerville]

Hi Petter,

I don't think your list needs much adjustment, it seems to cover 
everything I can think of :-)

MaPit already uses GPS coordinates for points, so it just needs a bit of 
work to store shapes in GPS co-ordinates rather than the British 
National Grid it currently does. Would you just want to use MaPit for 
the point -> authority look up, or would you also load postnummer (I 
don't know how small they are, or whether Norwegians use them for 
locating as the UK does). It would work fine simply with the authority 
shapes, I was just interested.

Yes, the FixMyStreet maps would need to be adapted to show a different 
map - this would be up to you, dependent on what mapping system would be 
best for Norway. If OpenStreetMap had good enough coverage for the 
country, we could use that, or Google Maps or whichever system - I will 
be adapting the code to allow different maps to be plugged in as 
appropriate.

The British co-ordinates FixMyStreet uses internally (once they're 
located on the map) should be able to be altered to use GPS co-ordinates 
for more universality, yes (and hopefully without affecting anything on 
the UK site that uses the British co-ordinates, such as the RSS feeds). 
There are other related changes needed, depending on how your shapes are 
done (in the UK, every point will have a "ward" which is one part of a 
"council" authority, so the alerts page asks you about both e.g. 
http://www.fixmystreet.com/alert?pc=n10la and that would need to be 
adapted if e.g. you don't have wards within your authorities). I have 
the patch you sent me before, but that doesn't seem to match what's 
currently on the site completely.

The translation and finding out where to send reports (in the UK, we 
base this on location and the category selected) are then the "easy" 
bits, I think (easy from my point of view, anyway! ;-) ).

Lastly, I very much agree with you about making all the changes work 
with the current source code, I will be generalising as much as possible 
during the work.

ATB,
Matthew

On 05/01/2011 11:37, Petter Reinholdtsen wrote:
> These were the points a wrote in November.  I expect the list might
> need adjustment based on input from Matthew.  I also am interested in
> the priority order for the tasks to be done.
>
>    - Set up a MaPit service using Norwegian map data and non-british
>      coordinates (preferably GPS coordinates).
>
>    - Use OpenLayers to draw the map and collect the location info. Got
>      some patches for this on<URL: http://www.fiksgatami.no/>.
>
>    - Change FixMyStreet to use non-british coordinates (preferably GPS
>      coordinates). Got some incomplete patches for this on<URL:
>      http://www.fiksgatami.no/>.
>
>    - Get a Shape file export from OpenStreetmap.org where the
>      administrative border information is provied as polygons instead
>      of lines. See
>      <URL: http://lists.nuug.no/pipermail/kart/2010-October/002055.html>.
>
>    - Make sure all user-visible texts in FixMyStreet is translatable.
>
>    - Translate the rest of fixmystreet to Norwegian Bokmål.
>
>    - Set up a git repository for the test code we use on fiksgatami.no.
>
>    - Figure out how requests find their way to the correct authority,
>      and set up some test routes to for example Oslo.
>
> It is important for that the needed changes become part of the
> official fixmystreet source code used in UK and elsewhere, to reduce
> the upgrade issues in the future.