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<p style="margin: 0 0 1em 0; color: black;">There is an organization
already tracking crowd-sourced reports of needed repairs, SeeClickFix. I
have used this to report issues such as blocked street drains. The local
Public Works department monitors these reports and marks them closed once
the needed repairs have been done.<br>
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<p
style="color: black; font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; margin: 10pt 0;">On
May 24, 2015 2:56:21 AM Bryce Nesbitt <bryce2@obviously.com> wrote:</p>
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dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_extra"><div class="gmail_quote">On Sun, May 24,
2015 at 12:22 AM, Warin <span dir="ltr"><<a
href="mailto:61sundowner@gmail.com"
target="_blank">61sundowner@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote
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<div><span style="color:rgb(34,34,34)">Because it become available to
others .. like the government/local
authorities who may be in charge of repairs? </span><br></div></div></div>
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</blockquote></div><br></div><div class="gmail_extra">Crowd source
databases are not appropriate sources for government/local action at that
level. Were there interest</div><div class="gmail_extra">from a
government/local authority, that agency could be granted protected access
to the taking manager or other data store.</div><div
class="gmail_extra"><br></div><div class="gmail_extra">Adding tags to the
main database is not the only option for collecting, maintaining or
distributing data.</div></div>
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