Sep 29 2008
In ur society, feeding u XML
Spent the evening looking at mySociety and its associated projects — They Work For You, Fix My Street and so on. Really exciting stuff that I feel I should help out.
I don’t know what to do first. Writing bindings seems a bit silly when it’s such a simple interface to use in the first place (HTTP GET requests). I’ll probably spend a bit more time looking at what is (a) available on the local government/council websites and (b) not yet tied in to the rest of the system. Yay, screen scrapers!