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diff --git a/docs/_posts/2012-07-27-default-workings.md b/docs/_posts/2012-07-27-default-workings.md new file mode 100644 index 000000000..ce89b3f4a --- /dev/null +++ b/docs/_posts/2012-07-27-default-workings.md @@ -0,0 +1,43 @@ +--- +layout: post +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. + + + +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 :) + |