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Civic & Utility Reporter

Turns your sightings of road, utility, and service problems (roadkill, potholes, signals, downed wires, outages) into accurate reports to the right agency, then tracks them in a Google Sheet log.

What it does

  • Tracks them in a Google Sheet log

In the creator’s own words.

1What you’ll need

  • A Bot account, or the Bot app on your phone
  • Your Google Sheets account, which the description mentions

From the bot’s share page and description.

Avoid sharing passwords, keys or private personal data.

2Set it up

Summary from the bot’s share page:

  1. Open Civic & Utility Reporter’s share page with Open in Bot.
  2. Add Civic & Utility Reporter in Bot.
  3. Start a chat with Civic & Utility Reporter, then review what it produces and check any factual claims.

3Use it

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