mashupaustralia.org » Highly Commendable Mashup http://mashupaustralia.org An initiative of the Government 2.0 Taskforce Wed, 01 Sep 2010 02:18:17 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 geo2gov http://mashupaustralia.org/mashups/geo2gov/ http://mashupaustralia.org/mashups/geo2gov/#comments Thu, 12 Nov 2009 22:30:23 +0000 Taskforce Secretariat http://mashupaustralia.org/?p=607 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 as the Federal Parlimentary website, OpenAustralia, MyMP and more.

geo2gov can be easily incorporated directly into other mashups as a search or address box, and can be deployed as a virtual applicance locally in addition to the regular online Amazon EC2 cloud-hosted service.

To make the Census results from geo2gov.com.au even more useful, it also provides pre-compiled single file database packs of the Census for PostgreSQL and SQLite.

The HTML version of the website is provided for debugging and development purposes, and demonstrates a fairly typical usage of the API.

]]> http://mashupaustralia.org/mashups/geo2gov/feed/ 17 Firemash http://mashupaustralia.org/mashups/firemash/ http://mashupaustralia.org/mashups/firemash/#comments Wed, 11 Nov 2009 00:43:34 +0000 Taskforce Secretariat http://mashupaustralia.org/?p=502 Firemash is a real time service that analyses notices from the NSW Rural Fire Service and the community for warnings and sightings.

It combines and analyses all of this information to determine the location and proximity to your house.

If you are at risk, it instantly sends you a specific tweet, giving you the crucial early warning needed to stay safe.

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