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Looking for Open Source software to help collect data from people in the field via cell phone / sms or web

  • Looking for Open Source software to help collect data from people in the field via cell phone / web or sms I'm looking for an Open Source application to help me collect data from the field. The type of data to be collected would be things akin to potholes. The users should be able to report issues from an iPhone, regular web or possibly sms(very optional). Data to be collected: GPS and/or street location optional notes optional photo "one button" collection would be great since there may be 10s of items to be collected per block Cycle time for a reported issue should be short so many can be logged in one pass Logins/user accounts would be needed to prevent spamming or data pollution Data visualization via scrollable Google map (or equivalent) I could modify code if there was something close but not quite right (e.g. a graffiti reporting system) SeeClickFix is not appropriate for this data since the items recorded wouldn't be fixed by the city (potholes and graffiti are just examples, not what is to be collected) PHP/Python/Java would be my top choices for languages. No problem with any open source license Simple is better. Any suggestions?

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    http://developmentseed.org/ did this with http://developmentseed.org/blog/2010/feb/22/integrating-slingshotsms-managing-news and http://developmentseed.org/product/managing-news, which is http://drupal.org/project/managingnews for http://drupal.org/. (What can't Drupal do?)

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The (Django) app source for http://fixmystreet.ca is http://github.com/visiblegovernment/django-fixmystreet. Should cover you nicely.

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