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How Safe is Your Suburb
How Safe Is Your Suburb is an easy- to-use interactive web application that allows the public to gain greater awareness and insight into crime statistics in Local Government Areas (suburbs) in New South Wales. The tool can be used by residents, local governments, state and federal government, researchers, non-government agencies, and crime and policy makers [...]
Categories: Facts & Figures, Family, Home & Community, Health & Safety, Law & Justice, Mapping, Mashups
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
Categories: Benefits, Payments & Services, Business & Industry, Culture, History & Sport, Economy, Money & Tax, Education & Training, Employment & Workplace, Environment & Natural Resources, Facts & Figures, Family, Home & Community, Government & Parliament, Health & Safety, Immigration, IT & Communications, Law & Justice, Mapping, Science & Technology, Tourism & Travel, Transformation Challenge, Transport
okSchool Explorer (Victoria)
I got on this late, but I did get a week of considering what angle to take, and then a week doing it up. The idea behind this mashup was to attempt to create a relationship between a category (in this case schools) and the physical location of the school. So the potential with schools [...]
Categories: Education & Training, Facts & Figures, Family, Home & Community, Mapping, Mashups
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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.
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, Mapping, Mashups, Student Entry
Public Web Locator
The Public Web Locator plots the location of all public web enabled libraries on the map of Australia. Clicking on a particular location, brings up a window that describes the main features of the library such as name, location, cost of using the internet, opening hours and other facilities available. To obtain driving directions to [...]
Categories: Education & Training, Family, Home & Community, IT & Communications, Mapping, Mashups
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Suburb Matchmaker
Our main goal when we approached this contest was to find ways to use different data sources in a practical way for the benefit of the wider community. We explored information from the 2006 Census and crime incident data and selected some key points that we considered significant in the decision making process of anyone [...]
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