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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 [...]
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 [...]
Victernet
Victernet is an mobile application to show Internet access spots around you. (In Victoria) Victernet automatically detects your location and find Internet access spots based on your location. You may call from your phone directly to book a position or inquire a staff. Victernet runs on iPhone and Android mobile phones. Just open http://victernet.com/ on [...]
Categories: Android, iPhone, IT & Communications, Mapping, Mashups, Science & Technology, Student Entry, Tourism & Travel
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 [...]
VisitOZ
The purpose of this mashup is to provide a way for users to navigate through Australia and finding information inregard to the importance and historical values of various heritage sites.
Categories: Culture, History & Sport, Mapping, Mashups, Student Entry
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An impossible city
A map of Darwin, with all buses drawn in an approximate location on it.
Categories: Mapping, Mashups, Student Entry, Transport
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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
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 [...]
Bike Community Hub
Our long-term objective is to promote bicycle as an efficient, respected and safe mode of transport in urban areas. Our mashup allows cyclists or would-be cyclists: to access and exchange safety information, contributed both by the road safety authorities (crash locations) and other cyclists (reported hazards) to study the best (safest, simplest) route in an [...]
Categories: Family, Home & Community, Health & Safety, Mapping, Mashups, Student Entry, Transport
Walter's Walk-a-meter
Have you ever wondered how to get your 30 minutes of exercise in your area or wondered just what you could get to without driving? Walter’s Walk-a-meter is a customizable interactive map that allows users to plot walking times and distances and calculates calories burnt (with Freddo Frog equivalents). It also displays the amount of [...]
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