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Get Stimulated

Taskforce Secretariat — Fri, 13 Nov 2009 06:15:13 +0000

Get stimulated is an interactive website that allows Australians to quickly see how funding from the Governments Economic Stimulus Plan is being spent in their local area.

GOVIS – visualising government

Taskforce Secretariat — Fri, 13 Nov 2009 06:00:36 +0000

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.

EasyData

Taskforce Secretariat — Fri, 13 Nov 2009 05:53:47 +0000

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 writing, regional profiling, strategic planning, program evaluation, and evidence-based policy making.

EasyData is now the single, largest source of web-based information for South Australia’s metropolitan and rural regions. Used in conjunction with SA’s Strategic Plan, EasyData empowers communities to set regional targets and monitor performance against them.

Know Where You Live

Taskforce Secretariat — Fri, 13 Nov 2009 05:49:02 +0000

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 created in under 24 hours as part of the inaugural Govhack event in Canberra in October, 2009.

NeoGopher 16 lists and 26 HTTP APIs

Taskforce Secretariat — Fri, 13 Nov 2009 05:45:23 +0000

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 data.australia.gov.au. To see our MashupAustralia lists, download NeoGopher http://www.neogopher.com/downloads.shtml

Part two: 26 HTTP web based APIs.
We have converted CSV and XLS data from data.australia.gov.au into 26 HTTP web based XML APIs. These APIs are accessible by the public and support Xquery access including searching, sorting, paging and return compressed XML.

Promoting Cycling

Taskforce Secretariat — Fri, 13 Nov 2009 03:57:56 +0000

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 have now been transformed, so they can be placed in their proper context, on a web based map where they belong. This data can be used to ascertain the need for new infrastructure or how any new infrastructure has increased the number of cyclists on particular routes. This assumes you also have the routes mapped and they are free for reuse.

The prime purpose here is to encourage Government departments around Australia to make cyclist routes available, as geo served maps, that are licensed for reuse. Likewise there are hundreds of cyclist count sites in Melbourne and Sydney that could be made available for reuse.

eightinsight

Taskforce Secretariat — Thu, 12 Nov 2009 23:24:24 +0000

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 viewable by state as well as national, and in most cases over time. The OpenAustralia.org API is also used to retrieve relevant debates in the senate, linking back to OpenAustralia.org for the full hansard (transcript of parliament).

KML Cruncher

Taskforce Secretariat — Thu, 12 Nov 2009 23:21:07 +0000

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 info, check out this blog: http://mappingexperience.blogspot.com/2009/11/space-time-research-releases-kml.html

An impossible city

Taskforce Secretariat — Thu, 12 Nov 2009 22:36:02 +0000

A map of Darwin, with all buses drawn in an approximate location on it.

Bike Community Hub

Taskforce Secretariat — Wed, 11 Nov 2009 22:38:06 +0000

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 interactive map
to review and rate up and coming bicycle lane developments
to access government representatives information for a given location

This project has been a catalyst for implementing a number of ideas and concepts that are shaping the new relationship between government and citizens:

transparency,
accountability,
collaboration,
civic engagement.