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Re:Ask HN: What are the best government (.gov) designed webs... by perl4ever on Wednesday March 28, 2018 @12:54AM (#16695384)
The ones I use most are:

https://www.sec.gov/

https://www.ssa.gov/

https://data.bls.gov/

https://dmv.ny.gov/

https://www.irs.gov/

All are useful and well-designed in my opinion.

I don't think they should be judged on "looking outdated" though. Functionality and security are what's important, and if it's too visually polished, I look at that as maybe even a negative indicator of functionality.

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Re:Ask HN: What are the best government (.gov) designed webs... by mtmail on Tuesday March 27, 2018 @08:01PM (#16693933)
https://www.boston.gov/ looks pretty modern.
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Re:Ask HN: What are the best government (.gov) designed webs... by jackgolding on Tuesday March 27, 2018 @09:04PM (#16694276)
For Australia the mobile version of http://m.bom.gov.au/vic/melbourne is great
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Re:Ask HN: What are the best government (.gov) designed webs... by FuckOffNeemo on Wednesday March 28, 2018 @03:35AM (#16696095)
Wow, the mobile site is better than the app by leaps and bounds (Android).
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Re:Ask HN: What are the best government (.gov) designed webs... by andrei_says_ on Wednesday March 28, 2018 @11:43AM (#16698589)
https://www.gov.uk/

I found these talkson the process of building and maintaining it very useful

https://vimeo.com/121348831 https://www.infoq.com/presentations/gov-uk-devops

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Re:Ask HN: What are the best government (.gov) designed webs... by compscigeek on Tuesday March 27, 2018 @11:36PM (#16695050)
Sweden's (though it's not a .gov)

https://sweden.se/

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Re:Ask HN: What are the best government (.gov) designed webs... by kqr on Wednesday March 28, 2018 @12:22AM (#16695264)
Sweden has really improved in this regard recently. I also like

- http://rkrattsbaser.gov.se/sfsr (searchable legal database of the legislative organ of govt)

- http://riksdagen.se/ (homepage of the legislative organ of govt, where full transcripts of proceedings are uploaded after at most a day)

- http://www.gov.se/ (general govt portal website)

However, a special mention is necessary for https://www.systembolaget.se/. Sweden has a government monopoly on alcohol, and the state-owned seller is Systembolaget. They were really early with having a well designed website. Their search is advanced and filterable in almost anything you'd want. They were really careful not to break the web by ensuring the back button works, and more importantly, that the current view is reflected in the address field so you can share what you see by copying the addrews and sending it in an email, and so on. Really important stuff that so many get wrong.

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Re:Ask HN: What are the best government (.gov) designed webs... by neximo64 on Tuesday March 27, 2018 @11:52PM (#16695123)
The UK's (gov.uk) is pretty modern. Also companies house (the uk company register) (beta.companieshouse.gov.uk).
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Re:Ask HN: What are the best government (.gov) designed webs... by hbcondo714 on Tuesday March 27, 2018 @10:24PM (#16694715)
Usability.gov; I found their take & format on use cases useful:

https://www.usability.gov/how-to-and-tools/methods/use-cases...

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Re:Ask HN: What are the best government (.gov) designed webs... by paulryanrogers on Tuesday March 27, 2018 @10:54PM (#16694874)
Hard to take seriously when they have a takeover modal
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Re:Ask HN: What are the best government (.gov) designed webs... by hbcondo714 on Thursday April 05, 2018 @02:08PM (#16767373)
Hmm, I didn't get any modals / popups
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Re:Ask HN: What are the best government (.gov) designed webs... by nautical on Wednesday March 28, 2018 @01:21AM (#16695520)
https://www.india.gov.in/

https://apps.mgov.gov.in/index.jsp

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Re:Ask HN: What are the best government (.gov) designed webs... by realdavidops on Tuesday March 27, 2018 @11:14PM (#16694957)
https://earthquake.usgs.gov/earthquakes/map/

Quickly displays important data.

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Re:Ask HN: What are the best government (.gov) designed webs... by DrScump on Wednesday March 28, 2018 @02:56AM (#16695955)
Weather.gov is much better than private-sector, privacy-sucking and adware-laden equivalents.
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Re:Ask HN: What are the best government (.gov) designed webs... by tudelo on Wednesday March 28, 2018 @01:13PM (#16699632)
For example... https://forecast.weather.gov/MapClick.php?lat=39.09&lon=-76....

You can't get this detail with any other service I can find.

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Re:Ask HN: What are the best government (.gov) designed webs... by xstartup on Tuesday March 27, 2018 @09:30PM (#16694425)
Irish VAT site.
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