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Earth:Australia

Earth:Australia

The Earth:Australia MashupAustralia contest entry responds to the challenge of demonstrating the enormous benefits to be gained with open access to government information. Earth:Australia addresses the transformation challenge of opening up government data sets in its ‘re-purposing’ of GIS (geographic information systems) data from ERSI shapefiles, to the more useable, and accessible KML (Keyhole Markup [...]

Categories: Education & Training, Environment & Natural Resources, Mapping, Mashups, Science & Technology, Student Entry, Student Entry -- Commendable Effort, Tourism & Travel, Transformation Challenge

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Community Rivers – River Health Monitoring

Community Rivers – River Health Monitoring

Community Rivers is a not-for-profit, community-owned organisation helping to protect Australia’s rivers, creeks, wetlands, estuaries and bays. We have developed an online database with GMap capabilities to enable volunteers to post river health information collected from local waterways. By incorporating the Mashup data into the site, volunteers can now view Government GIS mapping information to [...]

Categories: Education & Training, Environment & Natural Resources, Facts & Figures, Family, Home & Community, Mapping, Mashups, Science & Technology, Student Entry, Student Entry -- Commendable Effort

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Flip Explorer

Flip Explorer

Flip Explorer combines an interactive online search interface, 3D tagcloud, and timeline widget, with a natural and familiar reading environment for mashups of digital knowledge collections. The user interface has been designed to present as a ‘book’, where pages displaying parts of a collection can be read and easily browsed as you would any physical [...]

Categories: Business & Industry, Culture, History & Sport, Education & Training, IT & Communications, Mashups, Notable Mashing Achievement, Science & Technology, Tourism & Travel

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GOVIS – visualising government

GOVIS – visualising government

A collaborative workspace for the visualisation of government structures, functions and datasets. Currently this uses the Commonwealth Agency data released by the National Archives and the goal is to link this to all the other datasets that have been released.

Categories: Benefits, Payments & Services, Business & Industry, Culture, History & Sport, Defence & International, Economy, Money & Tax, Education & Training, Employment & Workplace, Environment & Natural Resources, Facts & Figures, Family, Home & Community, Government & Parliament, Health & Safety, Immigration, IT & Communications, Law & Justice, Mashups, Science & Technology, Tourism & Travel, Transport

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EasyData

EasyData

EasyData is a new user-friendly South Australian website that provides data on sixty social, environmental and economic indicators, allowing comparisons at Local Government and regional levels, or with the whole of State. This makes EasyData a perfect tool for the staff of local government, regional development bodies, government agencies, and community associations, to substantiate grant [...]

Categories: Benefits, Payments & Services, Business & Industry, Economy, Money & Tax, Education & Training, Employment & Workplace, Environment & Natural Resources, Facts & Figures, Family, Home & Community, Government & Parliament, Health & Safety, IT & Communications, Law & Justice, Mapping, Mashups, Science & Technology, Tourism & Travel, Transport

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Know Where You Live

Know Where You Live

Know Where You Live is the prototype of a data mashup that displays a range of Australian Government data based on your geographic location along with a Google satellite map and relevant photo from the Powerhouse Museum Collection, the State Records NSW or the State Library of New South Wales collection. The initial prototype was [...]

Categories: Economy, Money & Tax, Education & Training, Employment & Workplace, Excellence in Mashing, Facts & Figures, Family, Home & Community, Law & Justice, Made at GovHack, Mashups, Transport

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NeoGopher 16 lists and 26 HTTP APIs

NeoGopher 16 lists and 26 HTTP APIs

Our submission has two parts: Part one: 16 MashupAustralia lists in NeoGopher. NeoGopher is a universa data browser developed in Melbourne, Australia and is designed to allow browsing of an HTTP web based API. NeoGopher is the intersection of linked data and the web. We have created 16 NeoGopher lists, each list presenting a data [...]

Categories: Benefits, Payments & Services, Business & Industry, Culture, History & Sport, Defence & International, Economy, Money & Tax, Education & Training, Employment & Workplace, Environment & Natural Resources, Facts & Figures, Family, Home & Community, Government & Parliament, Health & Safety, Immigration, IT & Communications, Law & Justice, Mashups, Science & Technology, Tourism & Travel, Transformation Challenge, Transport

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Shades Of A Sunburnt People

Shades Of A Sunburnt People

Australians come in all shapes, sizes, ages, incomes, educations and ancestries. Our site allows you to explore the various shades of Australians by selecting from a range of demographic overlays. Each rapidly shades our nation in attractively sunburnt tones (though users may select their own colour spectrum too), representing the range of Australian diversity at [...]

Categories: Economy, Money & Tax, Education & Training, Employment & Workplace, Facts & Figures, Family, Home & Community, Mapping, Mashups

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Where to Live

Where to Live

WheretoLive.com.au is a search tool designed to help Australians find their ideal suburb or town. By comparing proximity to essential and emergency services with suburb profiling data provided by the ABS, Australians now have a unique opportunity to research their next move.

Categories: Education & Training, Facts & Figures, Health & Safety, Law & Justice, Mashups

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Race Around Your Block

Race Around Your Block

How Green Is Your Block? What’s your current Green Block Point Score? Want more points? Add them! Start a community garden. Add a placemarker. Connect with neighbours. Find a bike rack. Mark and Organic Food Store. Placemark a park!

Categories: Education & Training, Environment & Natural Resources, Family, Home & Community, Government & Parliament, Mashups

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