Challenges - apps4nsw wiki

Contents

• 1 Challenges and datasets
• 2 Energy Category
• 3 Transport Category
• 4 Environment Category
• 5 Spatial Category
• 6 General Category

Challenges and datasets

There are five categories in the competition, each with a prize pool of $1500.

• Energy
• Transport
• Environment
• Spatial
• General

Use any of the datasets you find at data.nsw to build an app that falls into one or more of the categories. See below for examples of the kinds of thing you might do.

Energy Category

You could use

• average electricity consumption by Local Government Area

To

• tell people how their energy usage compares to other
• alert people to days of high demand so they can voluntarily reduce their consumption

Transport Category

You could use

• real-time bus stop description data
• real-time bus stops and vehicles data
• live Traffic Cameras
• RTA Live Traffic RSS Feed

To

• find the location and arrival time for public transport in real time
• make it easier to catch public transport and know what’s happening
• help people plan travel times to reduce congestion and delays
• allow people to report faults and graffiti on trains and Railcorp properties
• allow people to report and find property lost on trains and buses

Environment Category

You could use

• threatened species in NSW
• plantNet
• NSW Natural Resources Atlas
• draft Sydney Metro vegetation mapping
• daily River Reports

To

• allow people to find out more about the plants and animals in their local areas or place they visit
• report a car or truck that is emitting smoke
• report a sighting of a threatened species

Spatial Category

You could use

• the ATLAS of NSW

To

• augment the atlas with crowd sourced content
• allow collaboration between ATLAS users

General Category

You could use

• Powerhouse Museum Collection API
• Crime Statistics Online Data Tools
• Geographical Names Register of NSW
• State Records Collection Photostream
• NSW Animal Registry Pet name database
• UV Index Forecast for NSW & ACT

To

• help people choose a pet name – what are the most popular dog and cats names?
• show the aboriginal names for places in NSW
• help people have hassle free nights – where are the crime hot spots?
• create a data visualisation using the State Records photo collection
• help people decide if they should go outside today based on the UV rating