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+title: Default Workings
+author: matthew
+---
+
+In the past few weeks, a number of improvements have been made to the
+FixMyStreet default set up, so that installation should provide you with a
+working setup more easily and quickly, before you get on and make all the
+necessary customisations you will want to for the service you are setting up.
+
+Firstly, we've tidied and consolidated the documentation on to this site,
+putting everything you need in one place. We are using GitHub pages, which means
+that the documentation is bundled along with the repository when checking out,
+which might be useful. The installation guide now includes help for installing
+on Mac OS X, and various other tweaks and improvements.
+
+Next, the codebase now automatically defaults to
+[OpenStreetMap](http://www.openstreetmap.org/) maps and geocoding – these are
+available, with more or less data, everywhere in the world, so you should be
+able to test your installation and see working maps.
+
+Whilst an installation of [MapIt](http://global.mapit.mysociety.org/) may be
+necessary for your FixMyStreet to work as you want – mapping locations picked to
+the right authority might need some private boundary data, for example – the
+code will now default to work as if everywhere is one administrative area.
+
+The code for sending reports has been refactored and modularised, enabling
+proprietary options to be more easily added alongside the standard email,
+Open311, and so on.
+
+We have removed any UK specific code from the default cobrand, moving it to
+a UK cobrand (which is then in turn inherited by the various council cobrands
+we have made in the UK). This should mean that you find you have less to override,
+and more things should work by default.
+
+![Default screenshot](/assets/img/2012-07-27-screenshot.png)
+
+Lastly, the default cobrand now uses the new style that you can see on
+<https://www.fixmystreet.com>. By default, we have picked a pretty yet garish
+colour scheme, in order to remind you that you almost certainly want to change
+the colours being used for your own installation :)
+