Summary from GovHack, held in Canberra on October 30-31

1. GovHack.org Take 100 passionate and skilled people Bring them together for 24 hours Give them access to Government datasets

2. 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

3. Skillsets J2EE, Java, C++, Javascript, Jquery, PHP, Ruby on Rails, Perl, Python, XML, Silverlight, Flash, Flex... UI and UX experts

4. 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

5. Data catalogues

6. LPMA contributions Some useful geographic datasets available from ABS in shapefile format Most users wanted statistics rather than maps Lots of data compilation

8. Enter a suburb and state: - return the LGA

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

10. 2039 includes Balmain and Rozelle Balmain includes 2041 and 2039 Many-to-many relationship

11. 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

15. 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

16. Know Where You Live

19. My Representatives User enters an address Site lists the politicians representing that area

21. Fridgemate

23. 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

26. Viewing the archives

27. Viewing the archives

28. 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 Boundaries Business names from Australian Business Register

32. Links LPMA matrices Rate My Loo Know where you live My Representatives It’s buggered, mate Lobby Clue