Meinedata, mellenrummet, and technical details

There are a stack of things I'd like to see added to mellanrummet (which is the iquango.org installation of meinedata), which I don't have the data for.

• Some sort of classification of country more detailed than by continent (gapminder has one)
• Data for additional indicators to add.
• I'd really love for someone to take on the job of tidying the data up. It's all automatically generated at the moment, so there is lots of scope for improvement (I can give you a big excel spreadsheet of everything which you can then edit).
  

All of the work building the flash was done by Steve McEntee, who has done an outstanding job of building it better and faster than I had imagined. There are a number of rough edges around design and which might be interesting for someone with design skills and flash knowledge to take a look at (contact Steve and/or myself).


While the XML schema used is relatively self explanatory, some notes are in CVS. if that doesn't answer your questions, please drop me an email and we'll improve the documentation. It'll be faster if you help, and we're eager to hear from you - please get in touch.

I've added some screenshots (1, 2) to my flickr account,so if you just want to make simple comments on display, you can do so there.

All the original code for this is in the mySociety CVS repository, and (soon) the CGI scripts for merging in additional data as for mptables. Soon to be available is a service where you can provide the URL for your own data and have it displayed in the flash for you. It's designed for relatively easy reuse, by just getting the flash and putting your data in (for merge, see the sites; upload of a spreadsheet without using any other data will be available after that if there's interest).