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Green Grads Grab #12 | Little Law Network — Mon, 01 Feb 2010 07:32:42 +0000

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Tue, 26 Jan 2010 11:57:14 +0000

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Comment on Launching our new website: Planning Alerts by Get email updates on building applications near you with new Planning Alerts site | iTech Report

Thu, 07 Jan 2010 00:40:49 +0000

[...] “You’d probably know if your next door neighbour was going to knock their house down (you’d get a letter through the door telling you they had applied for planning permission and asking you what you thought about it). But you’d probably never find out if the old cinema or pub 5 streets away is going to be converted into luxury flats until the bulldozers turned up” Landauer said today. [...]

Comment on Launching our new website: Planning Alerts by Most Tweeted Articles by Government 2.0 Experts

Most Tweeted Articles by Government 2.0 Experts — Sat, 26 Dec 2009 14:45:34 +0000

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Comment on Launching our new website: Planning Alerts by Matthew Landauer

Matthew Landauer — Wed, 23 Dec 2009 04:25:37 +0000

Gordon – thanks for your comments!

On point 1 – I agree entirely. There’s currently very little error checking going on with the address entry. We’ve got a ticket open to fix that one: http://tickets.openaustralia.org/browse/PA-81

On point 2 – This is already supported! Check out the API at http://www.planningalerts.org.au/apihowto.php

This allows you to get a geoRSS feed based on a location and search size – either based on a latitude/longitude or street address.

Comment on Launching our new website: Planning Alerts by Gordon Grace

Gordon Grace — Wed, 23 Dec 2009 03:55:58 +0000

That’s some nice work, team. A few issues (feature requests?) you may want to consider:

1. Address disambiguation.

How do I know you’ve completely understood where I say I am? If you’re not 100% certain, ask me to clarify, pinpointing on a map if necessary. This will stop users thinking they’ve sucessfully subscribed to receive alerts, whereas their associated address may not actually have any coverage (or its coverage may be unknown).

2. Feed support to complement email alerts.

Your privacy policy is admirable. I’m just a little skittish whenever someone asks me to give them both my email address AND my postal address. Perhaps creating custom [Geo] RSS feeds (using a combination of geocode and radius) for users to subscribe to would ease privacy concerns?

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Mon, 21 Dec 2009 00:26:18 +0000

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Comment on Two great hackfest days! by Australia, You Have Been Mashed | Government 2.0 Taskforce

Australia, You Have Been Mashed | Government 2.0 Taskforce — Wed, 18 Nov 2009 04:31:26 +0000

[...] others – the GoogleHackNights #1 and #2, the Melhack and the OpenAustralia Google Hackfest (see this report back) – were self-organised. All of them were huge [...]