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Promoting Cycling
To promote cycling as a mode of transport you need good cycling infrastructure. To build that infrastructure, we need to know where people cycle and how many, so it can be constructed appropriately and effectively. Cyclist trip counts acquired by electronic counters around Sydney have been hiding in an old and dusty Excel file. They [...]
Map My Fun
This mashup allows you to search playgrounds, parks and sporting facilities on the map. It also enables you to add more fun and interesting locations to the map. To use it, type a place name, an address or a suburb and click to search. If your favourite location is not on the map, zoom in [...]
Flink Weather
Inspired by the bush fires in Victoria earlier this year, Flink Weather is a data visualisation that explores the relationship between air quality in the city and the temperature, wind and humidity. Showing the air quality readings over 2008 the viewer sees a wax and wane as if the city is almost breathing. The weather [...]
Categories: Environment & Natural Resources, Facts & Figures, Mashups
GreenVictoria
Climate change is now widely recognized as the major environmental problem facing the globe. It is our duty as Australian citizens to understand consequences of environmental damage and do everything possible to become a “green” society. This will bring greener sustainable future for ourselves and our kids. Our website is aimed to rise awareness of [...]
Firelocator
Pitney Bowes FireLocator federates and integrates the most current data from multiple sources to provide a seamless user experience. These datasets include the Rural Fire Service in NSW, Country Fire Authority in Victoria, satellite hotspots from Geoscience Australia’s Sentinel, as well as Australian Bureau of Statistics 2006 Census population figures showing the potential impact of [...]
eightinsight
Eightinsight is a collection of data from the ABS, OpenAustralia.org, and data.australia.gov.au. The data is organised into four sections which give the user the ability to relate the progress of Australia to the federal government for key topics. This gives a simple introduction into how parliament relates to Australia’s progress and performance. The data is [...]
KML Cruncher
The KML Cruncher is a web service/web page that converts and generalises ESRI polygon shape files into KML ready for the web. It’s useful for those people who quickly want to move from the ESRI shape file format into KML for web mash ups, without the fuss of obtaining heavy weight GIS systems. For more [...]
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Frog Atlas
The Frog Atlas takes digital recordings of frog calls collected by community members, along with information about when and where the recordings were collected. These recordings are then analysed and added to the state government’s fauna database to provide information about the distribution of frogs in SA. The state government database has ~6700 records collected [...]
Categories: Environment & Natural Resources, Mashups, Science & Technology
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justRcorner.net
This is a demonstration site (Newcastle NSW only) that seeks to explore how mobile phones can be used by neighborhoods and communities (in this case by people with disabilities and their carers) to gather local information, build local knowledge and integrate this with traditional statistical (ABS), administrative and planning data within a community data repository.
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iNation
The Government 2.0 Taskforce has invited Australians to take Government data and use it to create applications, demonstraing better ways of providing information access and the benefits of open source information. iNation provides quick and easy access to data from a variety of Australian Government Departments. By providing only nationally consistent datasets, all Australians accessing [...]
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