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steveko | Steve Bennett blogs
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8230;about maps, open data, Git, and other tech. 2015’s proudest moments. On December 26, 2015. Self-doubt is awful, so this is for Future Steve: here are lots of things you did in 2015 that you can be proud of! Swagger API documentation for PTV’s real-time API, as part of the VicTripathon hackfest. PTV’s documentation. Is a developer’s nightmare. My version has live testing of the API built in and links to various wrappers in different languages. Measure of success: the devs said it was ok. A standard f...
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After the hackathon: 4 classic recipes | Steve Bennett blogs
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8230;about maps, open data, Git, and other tech. After the hackathon: 4 classic recipes. On April 23, 2015. Everyone loves hackathons. And almost as much, everyone loves asking “ but what happens to the projects afterwards? 8221; There’s more than one route to follow. I’d like to propose four standard recipes we can use to describe the prospects of each project. 8211; hackathon to start-up success story. Start-up mentors, entrepreneurs, a business focus from the get-go. 8221; category winner last year, I...
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Good governance and active citizenship require open data
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Read on Google Play. Sign up as a reader. Academic rigor, journalistic flair. Good governance and active citizenship require open data. April 30, 2015 4.45pm EDT. Governments produce enormous amounts of data. The open data movement wants to make that available to all citizens. r2hox/Flickr. Good governance and active citizenship require open data. April 30, 2015 4.45pm EDT. PhD researcher, Australian National University. Cobi Smith has volunteered with Open Knowledge in Australia and overseas. Assuming g...
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opengov | Steve Bennett blogs
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8230;about maps, open data, Git, and other tech. After the hackathon: 4 classic recipes. On April 23, 2015. Everyone loves hackathons. And almost as much, everyone loves asking “ but what happens to the projects afterwards? 8221; There’s more than one route to follow. I’d like to propose four standard recipes we can use to describe the prospects of each project. 8211; hackathon to start-up success story. Start-up mentors, entrepreneurs, a business focus from the get-go. 8221; category winner last year, I...
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govhack | Steve Bennett blogs
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8230;about maps, open data, Git, and other tech. Your own personal National Map with TerriaJS: no coding and nothing to deploy. On July 2, 2015. Is a pretty awesome place to find geospatial open data from all levels of Australian government. (Disclaimer: I work on it at NICTA). But thanks to some not-so-obvious features in TerriaJS, the software that drives it, you can actually create and share your own private version with your own map layers without programming, and without deploying any code. Using th...
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Open Knowledge | Steve Bennett blogs
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8230;about maps, open data, Git, and other tech. Category Archives: Open Knowledge. 2015’s proudest moments. On December 26, 2015. Self-doubt is awful, so this is for Future Steve: here are lots of things you did in 2015 that you can be proud of! Swagger API documentation for PTV’s real-time API, as part of the VicTripathon hackfest. PTV’s documentation. Is a developer’s nightmare. My version has live testing of the API built in and links to various wrappers in different languages. A standard for publish...
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hackathon | Steve Bennett blogs
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8230;about maps, open data, Git, and other tech. After the hackathon: 4 classic recipes. On April 23, 2015. Everyone loves hackathons. And almost as much, everyone loves asking “ but what happens to the projects afterwards? 8221; There’s more than one route to follow. I’d like to propose four standard recipes we can use to describe the prospects of each project. 8211; hackathon to start-up success story. Start-up mentors, entrepreneurs, a business focus from the get-go. 8221; category winner last year, I...
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open data | Steve Bennett blogs
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8230;about maps, open data, Git, and other tech. Tag Archives: open data. Your own personal National Map with TerriaJS: no coding and nothing to deploy. On July 2, 2015. A 3D, rotateable, zoomable globe, thanks the awesome Cesium. Library. (It seamlessly falls back to Leaflet. If 3D isn’t available.). Selectable layers, grouped into an organised hierarchy of your devising. Choose your own basemap, initial camera position, styling for some spatial types, etc. 1 Make your own content with online tools.
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