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"Garbage reminder app:
* Simply punch in your address and find out your garbage zone (no more guessing if you live on the border of a zone)
* Get an email or SMS notification 15 minutes, 1 hour, 12 hours (whenever!) before pick up
* Download the garbage schedule into your calendar using XML, HTML or ICAL"We actually had exactly the same idea at Amsterdam barcamp/govcamp last month, and extended the idea with crowdsourcing the screenscraping job for every Dutch municipality/city. See http://www.lifesized.net/2009/06/16/hackdeoverheid-a-geeks-meet-government-event-held-in-amsterdam-june-2009/ and http://www.zylstra.org/blog/archives/2009/06/hack_the_govern.html and my own writeup in Dutch: http://weblog.vanhecke.info/hackdeoverheid/