Comments on: Geocoded List of Medicare Office Locations

By: Ryan Scott

Ryan Scott — Tue, 27 Oct 2009 01:56:03 +0000

Thomas!
Great to see you here. aaah, should have known you would be into this, you’ve been doing the Job recruitment stuff for years. No it all makes sense =)

By: Thomas Shaw

Thomas Shaw — Mon, 26 Oct 2009 07:06:56 +0000

You could do exactly the same google maps mashup with the Centrelink data. http://data.australia.gov.au/80

Ryan.. haven’t seen you around since early SD days!

By: Ryan Scott

Ryan Scott — Fri, 23 Oct 2009 00:45:32 +0000

Nice article, and great usage Michael (thought I recognized your name… and can’t miss that logo!…. =)

You’ve just given me thought for about 5 uses for this right now. I think I’ll have to drop you an email….

By: Michael Harris

Michael Harris — Mon, 12 Oct 2009 08:39:15 +0000

Should have put up the new URL for the sample mashup as well:
http://members.westnet.com.au/mgharris/mashup/medicare/

By: Michael Harris

Michael Harris — Mon, 12 Oct 2009 08:38:27 +0000

V0.2 of the sample using the Geocoded feed is up, now includes geolocation for supported browsers.

By: James Dellow

James Dellow — Fri, 09 Oct 2009 06:40:24 +0000

Michael/Mike – I’m glad you found this little set of data useful, in one way or another. I didn’t really submit it as serious mashup competition contender but rather to demonstrate how it it relatively straight forward to make it a little easier for non-programmers to start mashing.

Mike – re: KML file. If you visit http://www.batchgeocode.com/ (the site I used to geocode this data) they have an option to export as a Google Earth KML file.

By: Mike Seyfang

Mike Seyfang — Thu, 08 Oct 2009 00:18:25 +0000

Nice work Michael – I learnt a lot about mashing up google spreadsheet data with google maps from your little html page, thanks!

I would be most interested to learn how best to work with this dataset in Google Earth.

By: Michael Harris

Michael Harris — Wed, 07 Oct 2009 12:27:10 +0000

This is great. I’ve thrown together a quick mashup of the data to show how it might be used:
http://members.westnet.com.au/mgharris/mashup/medicare.html

Its pretty basic at the moment, sucking the data straight from the the ATOM feed, and using the Google Maps API to render the information. I’ve also added popup markers with the details of each office and am in the process of adding a get directions link to the marker popup.