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Americentrism? Code compliant where? I tried my place in New Zealand, but the address isn't recognized. I couldn't find anywhere on the site what countries/regi

by foopod 27d ago

Americentrism? Code compliant where? I tried my place in New Zealand, but the address isn't recognized. I couldn't find anywhere on the site what countries/regions are accepted.

dearilos 27d ago
What province/state/territory in NZ? I can add it in. We just research the code compliance stuff manually so we couldn't cover the entire world but I can add your case in.
- trainingonme 27d ago
  The UK doesn't seem to work, either. (Tried postcode and town)
  - dearilos 27d ago
    I can add this in too. Sorry, it might take a bit of time!
    - barryvan 26d ago
      Any chance of Western Australia? This looks like a really useful tool and I'd love to give it a proper go here...
      - dearilos 26d ago
        Heya I'd love to help! Could you shoot me a note to my email in my bio? I didn't see a way to reach out from your profile.
ajb 27d ago
To be fair it's going to be nontrivial to implement all the codes everywhere. In some cases it's going to be impossible for an app like this to judge - In the UK, for example, there are "permitted development" rights which allow certain things (like a garden office or other outbuilding) without going through a bureaucratic process. But while some of the rules are easy to automate (eg, must be less than 2.5m high) some are not. For example, the UK allows building over 50% of the garden[1]. But if it was just measurement based, you'd be able to build over 50%, then 50% of the remaining 50%, etc etc. So the rule is "50% of the original garden". That's going to be difficult for an app like this to find out. [1] it's slightly more complicated than this
- foopod 27d ago
  Oh yeah, not suggesting they try to handle everywhere on Earth. But it would be nice if supported countries/regions was listed somewhere.
  - wink 26d ago
    I mean the page is in English and they used $ for the currency, how many countries could they really target? /s

by foopod 27d ago

Americentrism? Code compliant where? I tried my place in New Zealand, but the address isn't recognized. I couldn't find anywhere on the site what countries/regions are accepted.

dearilos 27d ago

What province/state/territory in NZ? I can add it in. We just research the code compliance stuff manually so we couldn't cover the entire world but I can add your case in.

trainingonme 27d ago
The UK doesn't seem to work, either. (Tried postcode and town)
- dearilos 27d ago
  I can add this in too. Sorry, it might take a bit of time!
  - barryvan 26d ago
    Any chance of Western Australia? This looks like a really useful tool and I'd love to give it a proper go here...
    - dearilos 26d ago
      Heya I'd love to help! Could you shoot me a note to my email in my bio? I didn't see a way to reach out from your profile.

ajb 27d ago

To be fair it's going to be nontrivial to implement all the codes everywhere. In some cases it's going to be impossible for an app like this to judge - In the UK, for example, there are "permitted development" rights which allow certain things (like a garden office or other outbuilding) without going through a bureaucratic process. But while some of the rules are easy to automate (eg, must be less than 2.5m high) some are not. For example, the UK allows building over 50% of the garden[1]. But if it was just measurement based, you'd be able to build over 50%, then 50% of the remaining 50%, etc etc. So the rule is "50% of the original garden". That's going to be difficult for an app like this to find out. [1] it's slightly more complicated than this

foopod 27d ago
Oh yeah, not suggesting they try to handle everywhere on Earth. But it would be nice if supported countries/regions was listed somewhere.
- wink 26d ago
  I mean the page is in English and they used $ for the currency, how many countries could they really target? /s