Coverage requests and coverage packs

The platform monitors a place's public sources through coverage packs. A coverage pack covers one place (a city, a county, a national legislature). It holds the connectors for that place (small programs that each read one official source on a schedule), saved test cases that show the connectors read the source correctly, and a survey of each source's terms. This page explains how a member asks for a place, and how the people who run the platform turn a request into monitored coverage. What the coverage banner's statuses mean is in Sources, "Coverage".

Requesting coverage (members)

Where the coverage banner says a place is Not monitored, it offers Request coverage for <place>: the city, town or county first, then districts and special-purpose bodies, at most three. The link opens Sources → Coverage requests with the place filled in.

• Add the place's official website if you know it (it helps find where agendas are published) and what you need, such as "council and planning commission agendas". Both are optional.
• Your organization has one waiting request per place. Asking again, from anyone in the organization, shows the existing request instead of a new one.
• The list shows every request your organization made and its status:

Any member can withdraw a request that is still Requested or Planned. Requests are private to your organization. The people who run the platform see how many organizations asked for a place and how many are on a paid plan, not who asked.

A pack's lifecycle