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Presented hacks
Here's some brief descriptions, and links to[], all the hacks and mashups that came out of GovHack Canberra; check them out, and be inspired.
Some videos of the demos are available at Youtube
LobbyLens
An in-depth visualisation of lobbying groups relations to government agencies, , including tenders awarded, links between the various agencies, and physical office locations.
Twitter contacts - @DorisSpiel, @maxious, @zephell, @frglps, or @mjec
WTFGD
What the Federal Government Does
An enormous tag cloud of the different functions of government, combined with visualisations of government functions shared between departments.
What the federal government does – first steps (blog)
Twitter contacts - @CathStyles @brendam with help from @nambor
GOVIS - Visualising Government @ Mashup Australia
and View GOVIS - Visualising Government
Twitter contact - @nambor
SoulSolutions
Worked on improving the data feeds supplied by various departments, including the powerhouse, as well as working on resizable map tile images, for us in mapping applications.
Powerhouse Dataset as a REST service
Lands Mapping Overlay (requires Microsoft Silverlight)
Twitter contacts - @soulsolutions @bronwenz
Know Where you live
A stylish presentation of ABS data, pulling in relevant information for a particular postcode: rental rates, average income, crime rates, and more.
Know Where you live @ MashupAustralia
Twitter contacts - @ericdot, @dp_lewis or @diversionary
Census
Showed off a merging of Census data and Google Maps, by showing the location of all speed cameras, with details of their type (red-light, general, etc).
My Representatives
In a quest to make it easier to engage in our democracy, My Representatives presented an API for finding your representative in the Houses of Parliament, through to local government. http://myrepresentatives.org/
Twitter contact: @myreps
A few days after GovHack, they announced the service was split out as a standalone service at http://geo2gov.com.au/
Twitter contacts: @jcandiloro @geo2gov
National Library (Picture Australia location search)
To help make searching historical picture archives easier, this demo linked the National Library archives up to a map, which pulled up all the pictures from that particular location.
Link to Picture Australia location search
Also from Paul: Then and Now @ MashupAustralia
Twitter contact - @paulhagon
myMP
In similar style to MyRepresentatives, this demo gave you access to your MP, including easy contact information, details of upcoming and past speeches, as well as pulling in various public data on that MP.
Here's the presentation that covers some of what we have planned for myMP.
Twitter contacts: @andrewperry @henaredegan
Rate-a-Loo
Demonstrates a community engagement idea, seeded with government provided data. Allows users to locate and then rate the condition of public toilets. Try out
Twitter contact - @wingedmonkeyboy
Project Tea-Lady
Project Tea-Lady ("Not very sexy, but glad someone's doing it"). Shows Local Gov data, postcodes, suburbs, etc.
Social Services
A site to search for social services (Canberra region) and browse user comments about the services
AccessibilityMate
Another Mashup for Government services in the ACT with an emphasis on respecting WCAG accessibility guidelines
Mashed Influence
(Live comment at Govhack): Team 19: MashedInfluence: people able to cross-reference different data-sets, though the demo seems to have exploded.
Mashed Influence @ Mashup Australia
Twitter contacts: @ atirado @NickHodge