All Transformation Challenge
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 Language) [...]
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 set from [...]
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, IT & Communications, Immigration, Law & Justice, Mashups, Science & Technology, Tourism & Travel, Transformation Challenge, Transport
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Crimewave
Crimewave provides an overview of crime incidents committed per city, as provided from the excel dataset “Crime incident type and frequency, by capital city and nationally”
The excel file is read, parsed and served up via a public webservice.
Inside the application users are able to gain an overview of the crime statistics in a graphical way. [...]
Categories: Facts & Figures, Health & Safety, Law & Justice, Mapping, Mashups, Transformation Challenge
PoliPress
PoliPress is a wordpress plugin to search the Hansard and quote members of parliament – powered by the OpenAustralia API.
This allows any blogger using Wordpress to quote and comment speeches from Parliament from within their blog. Here is a sample: http://blog.sherifmansour.com/?p=363
Further Reading is on the Google Code page or here: http://blog.sherifmansour.com/?p=419
Categories: Government & Parliament, Transformation Challenge
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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, IT & Communications, Immigration, Law & Justice, Mapping, Science & Technology, Tourism & Travel, Transformation Challenge, Transport
geo2gov
The geo2gov API is an online service that will take a location description in a wide range of formats, and map that location to the government.
It can determine jurisdictions, electorates, representatives, where your location is defined demographically at each layer within the Census, and provides identifier maps so you can link into other websites such [...]
Fire Up The Barbie
“Fire Up The Barbie” is an all Aussie app that lets us Aussies do what we do best – organise and cook up a barbie!
The application let’s you search for a bbq in ACT & QLD (more data to come, as we have mined data for all states) and organise an event for it on Facebook, [...]
Categories: Family, Home & Community, Mapping, Mashups, Transformation Challenge
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 this [...]
absxml
A web service that converts ABS timeseries data from Excel to XML to allow easier programmatic consumption. The service is hosted on Google’s AppEngine and is released under the open source MIT license.
Categories: Facts & Figures, Mashups, Transformation Challenge
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Data Aggregator
This mashup is for anyone who wants to use a single web application to explore multiple data.australia.gov.au datasets, to interactively combine datasets and to inspect data content without having to download all the original data files. From local community services to complex Geographic Information System (GIS) files.
Main Points:
Combine different datasets on a single map (eg [...]
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