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October 21, 2009

Australian Electoral Commission tender for a self-service map

Provision of an internet hosted map-based polling place and permanent business site locator service that:

  • allows a member of the public to locate a permanent AEC office
  • allows an elector to easily locate a polling place so they can cast their vote at a federal electoral event
  • reduces calls to the AEC’s election call centre in relation to queries about polling place locations
  • promotes self-service options by Users
  • provides a set of spatial services to a number of internal AEC applications; primarily the Election Call Centre Application (ECCA)
via tenders.gov.au

It will be interesting to see if the Gov 2.0 Taskforce's work has an affect on this, so that we don't end up with another data silo example like the toilet database (always my favourite example). The tender closes on the 11th November.

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September 30, 2009

The Three Laws of Open Government Data (As I was just saying...)

The Three Laws of Open Government Data:

  1. If it can’t be spidered or indexed, it doesn’t exist
  2. If it isn’t available in open and machine readable format, it can’t engage
  3. If a legal framework doesn’t allow it to be repurposed, it doesn’t empower
via eaves.ca

As I was just saying.

BTW Hat tip to someone who shared this via Twitter, but their tweet got lost in my stream... you know who you are, so thank you! :-)

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September 30, 2009

Mashing the Aussie State: Geocoding Medicare office location data

Just for fun(!), I geocoded the Medicare office locations released as part of the 'beta' data.australia.gov.au initiative and then put it on a map:

Unfortunately I don't have anywhere to host the map itself (because of the script, I can't post it here), however the raw geocoded data is available via Google Docs.

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