govhack summary
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Summary from GovHack, held in Canberra on October 30-31TRANSCRIPT
GovHack.org
Take 100 passionate and skilled people
Bring them together for 24 hours
Give them access to Government datasets
Participants
Lonely Planet, Sensis, News Ltd, Lagen Spatial+ many freelancers and not-for-profits
Federal Government including BRS & ABS
NSW State Government including LPMA & RFS
Powerhouse Museum
Skillsets
J2EE, Java, C++, Javascript, Jquery, PHP,Ruby on Rails, Perl, Python, XML,
Silverlight, Flash, Flex...
UI and UX experts
GIS skills?
Very few “old school” desktop GIS users
Some PostGIS and other FOSS GIS users
Little understanding of projections and datums
But loads of good ideas
Data catalogues
LPMA contributions
Some useful geographic datasets available from ABS in shapefile format
Most users wanted statistics rather than maps
Lots of data compilation
LPMA contributions
Create matrices showing relationships between:
•Local Government Areas (LGA)•Suburbs•Postcodes
Plus data conversion, geocoding, reprojection, etc
Enter a suburb and state:- return the LGA
Enter a suburb and state:- return the postcode(s)
2039 includes Balmain and RozelleBalmain includes 2041 and 2039
Many-to-many relationship
Rate A Loo
Google Map showing ACT public toilets
Allows user to rate the condition
Crowd-sourcing information back to Govt
Demonstrates common-operating-picture
Know Where You Live
Site returns statistics drawn from ABS, NSW Crime Commission, etc
Geo-coded photo from the National Library
Google Map of the area
Know Where You Live
My Representatives
User enters an address
Site lists the politicians representing that area
Fridgemate
It’s buggered, mate
Allows users to draw features on the map
Domain dropdown provides validation
Annotate with information on damage
Logs inputs into an archive
Viewing the archives
Viewing the archives
Lobby Clue Correlates data about Government contracts,
business details and politicians
Shows the relationships between them
Data sources:Contract Notices from tenders.gov.au
Electoral Region BoundariesBusiness names from Australian Business Register
Links
LPMA matricesRate My Loo
Know where you liveMy RepresentativesIt’s buggered, mate
Lobby Clue