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Arts on the Map

Taskforce Secretariat — Mon, 23 Nov 2009 03:56:59 +0000

The brief for Arts on the Map was to visualise the geographic reach and impact of funding provided to Arts organisations by the Australia Council for the Arts. An initial dataset of nearly 200 hundred funded organisations was mapped according to artforms and regions. An additional level of user generated functionality was added enabling each of the organisations to login and edit and update their profiles, and contribute digital story content (youtube, vimeo, custom digital postcards) to the database.

Arts on the Map can be searched in a full screen map view (google maps or google earth) using a custom flash navigation overlay developed for the project. The default map view is Google Maps but some of the touring features are designed to take advantage of the Google Earth browser plug-in. Visitors can select one or more artform areas and one or more regions (state or territory) to refine their search of organiations. The ‘tour’ feature generates a custom KML of the search results to play an automated fly-around. A second navigation tab (Stories) enables digital story content searching and generates similar tours of published story content. The red kangaroos denote the location of arts organisation and white kangaroos show the location of stories published by these organisations.

Single image ‘digital postcard’ stories can be created and published from any email enabled mobile phone. Postcards created with GIS enabled phones are automatically located at the place the image was taken, providing a quick and simple way for organisations to send in updates about their activities from across Australia and internationally. The next stages of Arts on the Map will include support for Australia Council funded projects as well as exploring connections with other datasets made available through the Data Australia initiative.

We have created a user login for Mashup visitors to explore the user generated content features of Arts on the Map.

Username – MashupGuest
Password – MashupGuest

A PDF user guide and video is provided in the help menu.

Arts on the Map was developed by Feral Arts for the Australia Council for the Arts. It has been designed to integrate into the Australia Council’s website www.australiacouncil.gov.au but is hosted externally as part of Feral Arts’ PlaceStories system (www.placestories.com).

NSW Crime

Taskforce Secretariat — Mon, 16 Nov 2009 01:40:32 +0000

Google maps mashup with a simple user interface. It displays NSW crime data by local government area.

It's Buggered Mate

Taskforce Secretariat — Mon, 16 Nov 2009 01:09:22 +0000

Tell your local council what is buggered in your neighbourhood. Find your location on the map, then scribble on it, and leave notes about what is wrong.

Earth:Australia

Taskforce Secretariat — Sun, 15 Nov 2009 23:15:21 +0000

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) format. KML files are supported by many different GIS viewers and as discussed in Wikipedia are excellent for: ‘expressing geographic annotation and visualization on existing or future Web-based, two-dimensional maps and three-dimensional Earth browsers’.

The technology Infrastructure for Earth:Australia includes: Google Earth browser plugin for data viewing, Adobe Flex framework for the user interface, and the Geospatial Data Abstraction Libray (GDAL) with related application libraries for shapefile to KML format conversion.

Four Seasons in One Map

Taskforce Secretariat — Fri, 13 Nov 2009 06:25:24 +0000

Provides current weather data such as temperatures, wind speed and direction, pressure, etc. of all weather stations in Australia.

At a glance, see where Australia is hot, windy, and get general wind direction across the nation.

Also provides last three days’ data for each station in an interactive graph beside the map.

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.

Community Rivers – River Health Monitoring

Taskforce Secretariat — Fri, 13 Nov 2009 06:11:15 +0000

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 help strategically position their local river monitoring sites. For example, they can identify Government surface water monitoring stations, ground water bore sites, major river basins and protected areas across Queensland. They can identify Detox facilities around Victoria to encourage local communities to dispose of toxic substances, such as paint and batteries, at appropriate facilities to prevent them being illegally dumped down drains or directly into our rivers and creeks.

If you have been collecting data on the health of your local river, creek or wetland from anywhere around Australia and would like to submit you information online through our community-owned website, please send us a message using the Contact Us button on our home page at www.communityrivers.org.au.

Flip Explorer

Taskforce Secretariat — Fri, 13 Nov 2009 06:08:24 +0000

Flip Explorer combines an interactive online search interface, 3D tagcloud, and timeline widget, with a natural and familiar reading environment for mashups of digital knowledge collections. The user interface has been designed to present as a ‘book’, where pages displaying parts of a collection can be read and easily browsed as you would any physical book. For the MashupAustralia contest, Flip Explorer uses the Powerhouse Museum Collection dataset, as well as the museum’s picture library. Search results are organised chronologically and indexed by time period for ‘timeline’ browsing.

Victernet

Taskforce Secretariat — Fri, 13 Nov 2009 06:03:54 +0000

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 your mobile phone browser and enjoy your surfing!

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.