Comments on: Linking to Maps. Dynamic http://www.mysociety.org/2006/06/07/linking-to-maps-dynamic/ Relentless user-focus on civic websites Fri, 10 Feb 2012 01:00:32 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.5 By: Francis Davey http://www.mysociety.org/2006/06/07/linking-to-maps-dynamic/comment-page-1/#comment-891 Francis Davey Wed, 12 Jul 2006 21:55:34 +0000 http://www.mysociety.org/?p=221#comment-891 Actually, this is a good, fundamental and general idea. Sadly no-one else has seen this point. Having had a go at pledgebank's latest woeful offering that tries to do geographical locality (but atrociously) its clear how useful it would be to have some open way of describing localities. Not just maps, but to be able to map between places, postcodes, distances and map points. Many of the ideas suggested so far, and some already tried by mysociety, would benefit from this kind of data and these kinds of tools being open. Francis Actually, this is a good, fundamental and general idea. Sadly no-one else has seen this point.

Having had a go at pledgebank’s latest woeful offering that tries to do geographical locality (but atrociously) its clear how useful it would be to have some open way of describing localities. Not just maps, but to be able to map between places, postcodes, distances and map points.

Many of the ideas suggested so far, and some already tried by mysociety, would benefit from this kind of data and these kinds of tools being open.

Francis

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