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Oncop53

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#70852 1-Nov-2010 16:59

Fix My Street a spatial application for notifying your local council http://fixmystreet.org.nz/

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#398653 1-Nov-2010 17:00

Councils should have more than an "app". They should have some good planning so that a crew digging my street on Monday and closing down on Wednesday doesn't have all the work undone by another crew digging the same spots again on Thursday for another company.

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#399124 2-Nov-2010 14:21

freitasm: Councils should have more than an "app". They should have some good planning so that a crew digging my street on Monday and closing down on Wednesday doesn't have all the work undone by another crew digging the same spots again on Thursday for another company.

i've been wishing for this for years. i'm sick of seeing the council dig up entire streets to re lay the pavements, and not seeing a single service get undergrounded at the same time. same for competing companies consecutively laying cables. surely there would so many benefits to such an approach. cost savings, predictable upgrade timeframes, minimised traffic flow disruptions etc

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nzfatmatt

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#399214 2-Nov-2010 16:24

Neat Streets is a great Application for Android, Iphone, Blackberry.

Australian made App for NZ and O, so you can submit problems anywhere in both countries..

You take a photo and at the same time it uses your GPS to get a fix. Then you can select the type of report and add description, then submit all from the app.

From there it is checked and submitted to the relevant authority.

It's quick and easy right on the spot with the app.

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#399223 2-Nov-2010 16:31

nzfatmatt: Neat Streets is a great Application for Android, Iphone, Blackberry.

Looks like a nice app but it's not showing in the Android market place.

nzfatmatt

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#399243 2-Nov-2010 17:09

graemeh:
nzfatmatt: Neat Streets is a great Application for Android, Iphone, Blackberry.

Looks like a nice app but it's not showing in the Android market place.

Hmm odd, I just searched for and found it on 2 android phones (Nexus One).

It's by Pepperstack

Try the QR code
NeatStreets

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#399470 3-Nov-2010 08:43

nzfatmatt:
graemeh:
nzfatmatt: Neat Streets is a great Application for Android, Iphone, Blackberry.

Looks like a nice app but it's not showing in the Android market place.

Hmm odd, I just searched for and found it on 2 android phones (Nexus One).

It's by Pepperstack

Try the QR code

Thanks, I found the problem. It is listed as "NeatStreets" and I was searching for "Neat Street". Doh!

Installing it now.

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#399506 3-Nov-2010 09:56

freitasm: Councils should have more than an "app". They should have some good planning so that a crew digging my street on Monday and closing down on Wednesday doesn't have all the work undone by another crew digging the same spots again on Thursday for another company.

You are right - this happens - Someone from a council partially explained this to me once.

Councillors dont like to be seen to increase rates - so they defer renewing infrastructure. That sewer pipe/water pipe/gas pipe that was was installed 100 years ago was supposed to last 50 years and is 50 years overdue for replacement. It works - but its in poor condition.
The road gets resealed or whatever and has heavy equipment shaking the ground up. The vibrations/general disturbance/weight causes stress on the creaking old pipes etc - maybe cracks them, dislodges shingle etc and a week later they are digging up the newly resealed road to fix the stuffed old pipes that should have been replaced 50 years ago. The telcos etc havent scheduled any budget for replacing the copper wires with fibre in that street so they don't have the money to do the job at the same time and also the council contractors are under pressure to fix the sewer/water PDQ.

The councils and infrastructure providers do try and schedule some simultaneous projects but the timing is obviously difficult.

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