GovHack.org

Take 100 passionate and skilled people

Bring them together for 24 hours

Give them access to Government datasets

Participants

Lonely Planet, Sensis, News Ltd, Lagen Spatial+ many freelancers and not-for-profits

Federal Government including BRS & ABS

NSW State Government including LPMA & RFS

Powerhouse Museum

Skillsets

J2EE, Java, C++, Javascript, Jquery, PHP,Ruby on Rails, Perl, Python, XML,

Silverlight, Flash, Flex...

UI and UX experts

GIS skills?

Very few “old school” desktop GIS users

Some PostGIS and other FOSS GIS users

Little understanding of projections and datums

But loads of good ideas

Data catalogues

LPMA contributions

Some useful geographic datasets available from ABS in shapefile format

Most users wanted statistics rather than maps

Lots of data compilation

LPMA contributions

Create matrices showing relationships between:

•Local Government Areas (LGA)•Suburbs•Postcodes

Plus data conversion, geocoding, reprojection, etc

Enter a suburb and state:- return the LGA

Enter a suburb and state:- return the postcode(s)

2039 includes Balmain and RozelleBalmain includes 2041 and 2039

Many-to-many relationship

Rate A Loo

Google Map showing ACT public toilets

Allows user to rate the condition

Crowd-sourcing information back to Govt

Demonstrates common-operating-picture

Know Where You Live

Site returns statistics drawn from ABS, NSW Crime Commission, etc

Geo-coded photo from the National Library

Google Map of the area

Know Where You Live

My Representatives

User enters an address

Site lists the politicians representing that area

Fridgemate

It’s buggered, mate

Allows users to draw features on the map

Domain dropdown provides validation

Annotate with information on damage

Logs inputs into an archive

Viewing the archives

Viewing the archives

Lobby Clue Correlates data about Government contracts,

business details and politicians

Shows the relationships between them

Data sources:Contract Notices from tenders.gov.au

Electoral Region BoundariesBusiness names from Australian Business Register

Links

LPMA matricesRate My Loo

Know where you liveMy RepresentativesIt’s buggered, mate

Lobby Clue