<html><head><meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"></head><body dir="auto"><div><br><br></div><div>On Sep 10, 2013, at 6:23 AM, Ravi Kumar <<a href="mailto:ravivundavalli48@yahoo.com">ravivundavalli48@yahoo.com</a>> wrote:<br><br></div><blockquote type="cite"><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 19px; font-family: 'times new roman', 'new york', times, serif; background-color: transparent; font-style: normal;">As part of a small Indian city GIS wish to integrate SMS (phhone) messaging <span style="font-size:14pt;">for registering</span><span style="font-size:14pt;"> </span></div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 14pt; font-family: 'times new roman', 'new york', times, serif; background-color: transparent; font-style:
normal;"><span style="font-size:14pt;">complaints, using say</span></div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 14pt; font-family: 'times new roman', 'new york', times, serif; background-color: transparent; font-style: normal;"><span style="font-size:14pt;">Ward number --> (ward is an administrative unit)
indicating the polygon of interest</span></div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 14pt; font-family: 'times new roman', 'new york', times, serif; background-color: transparent; font-style: normal;"><span style="font-size:14pt;">Street name --> to further localise the complaint to the intersection of the street with its ward</span></div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 14pt; font-family: 'times new roman', 'new york', times, serif; background-color: transparent; font-style: normal;"><span style="font-size:14pt;">and so on..</span></div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 14pt; font-family: 'times new roman', 'new york', times, serif; background-color: transparent; font-style: normal;"><span style="font-size:14pt;">If any body can share such designs already used it will be of a great help.</span></div></blockquote><br><div><br></div><div>Short answer1 -- this is not easy.</div><div><br></div><div>Short answer2 -- look at Open 311</div><div><br></div><div>Medium long answer -- I hand-coded a system a couple of years back which required fiddling with the incoming messages, parsing the loc, then doing a point-in-poly analysis to determine where and who was responsible.</div><div><div style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(26, 26, 26, 0.296875); -webkit-composition-fill-color: rgba(175, 192, 227, 0.230469); -webkit-composition-frame-color: rgba(77, 128, 180, 0.230469); "><div><br></div><div><br></div>--<div><div>Puneet Kishor</div><div>Science and Data Policy, Creative Commons</div></div><div><br></div></div></div></body></html>