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Mashups
Articles and resources about mashup services which combine maps with data from a variety of web sources.
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- Mashups and Accessibility - Accessibility Toolkit - Version 3 - 2009
- It is difficult to categorically state that mashups are inaccessible; it really depends on the primary applications and how they have been put together. The best way to ensure that mashups do not exclude people with disabilities is to provide a transcript of the mashup in text or HTML.
Added: 14 May 2010
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- School performance - exam results in England using raw data and map overlays
- The Guardian newspaper has published England's General Certificate of Secondary Education - GCSE results in your area - and your school - as a spreadsheet
Added: 1 June 2010
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- Beginners Guide to Data Mashups
- Walk through creating your first data mashup, written by Tim McNamara. sponsored by the Charities Commission, mixandmash.org.nz, 2011. "This guide gives you the ABC of creating a mashup. Have a read if you haven't made one before, or want a refresher. By the bottom of the page you'll have the confidence to: open up a command line interface and begin tinkering, and exploring more in-depth material..."
Added: 24 August 2011;
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- Linked data mash-up challenge
- The Institute of Metadata Management (IMM) is hosting a linked data mash-up challenge. The aim of this challenge is to create an incentive for linking information in novel and ingenious ways to foster the knowledge discovery process and deliver end-user benefits. The challenge will also demonstrate to delegates the potential value in linking datasets. The Institute is now inviting submissions of web applications that perform mash-ups on raw and / or linked data, via novel mechanisms or technologies, and that showcase the benefits of Linked Data to end-users. The deadline for submitting mashup entries is 10 May 2011.
Added: 24 March 2011;
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- Data.gov's next big thing: Mashing up federal stats with maps
- By Aliya Sternstein. NextGov, 18 June 2010. "Data.gov, the federal government's clearinghouse of downloadable information, plans to release new gadgets that will enable the public to easily create mashups of maps and statistics, according to officials working on the enhancements..."
Added: 21 June 2010;
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- Apps4NSW Mashup Competition Entries
- Posted by Keir Clarke. Google Maps Mania, Tuesday, March 16, 2010. "... round-up of the Apps4NSW mashup competition run by the New South Wales government..."
Added: 18 March 2010;
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- New York City, App Developers Win Big in Local Innovation Competition
- By Russell Nichols. Government Technology, February 10, 2010. "In the nation's most populous city, jam-packed with some 8 million people, it makes sense that the grand prize of a New York City innovation challenge would go to an application that helps travelers find their way around..."
Added: 11 February 2010;
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- MashUp Australia Contest award winners announced
- And the Mashie Goes To…[drum roll] by Mia Garlick. Government 2.0 Taskforce Blog, 14 December 2009. The winners of the MashupAustralia contest have now been announced. They are: Surburban Trends a mashup of different types of crime and census data; Know Where You Live which bills itself as a prototype of a mashup of a range of open access government data based on postcodes. Highly commended were: geo2gov - an online service that will take a location description in a wide range of formats, and map that location to the government; Firemash - analyses notices from the state of New South Wales' Rural Fire Service and sends you a tweet if you are at risk. There were also Notable Mashing Achievements and people's choice awards.
Added: 14 December 2009;
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- Australian Mashup Competition Round-Up
- posted by Keir Clarke. Google Maps Mania, Sunday, November 15, 2009. "The MashupAustralia competition is now closed. There has been an amazing 78 entries and the vast majority of the entries involve maps..." This post looks at: Victoria: Fire Ready; FireMash; AuScope Portal; LocateMe; and Data Aggregator.
Added: 16 November 2009;
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- Mashup Australia Contest
- posted by Keir Clarke. Google Maps Mania, Sunday, October 18, 2009. Looks at the results of the Mashup Australia contest so far. Mashups entered include: Your Victoria Online, Victorian Schools Locator, Broadband Locator, Geocoded List of Medicare Office Locations, and Postcode Finder.
Added: 19 October 2009;
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- Mashup Australia
- Published by the Government 2.0 Taskforce. "The Government 2.0 Taskforce is holding the MashupAustralia contest between October 7 and November 6th, 2009... The Government 2.0 Taskforce is holding this contest to provide a practical demonstration of the benefits that open access to Australian public sector information (PSI) can provide..."
Added: 1 October 2009;
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- Toxic Waters - Find Water Polluters Near You
- The New York Times newspaper has compiled data on more than 200,000 facilities that have permits to discharge pollutants and collected responses from states regarding compliance. They have mashed it up using Google Maps. You can search by city or zip code or select a state.
Added: 22 September 2009;
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- Google Maps Tool
- posted by Keir Clarke. Google Maps Mania, Monday, July 13, 2009. "MapTool2 from Zorum solutions is a Google Maps mashup that lets you check the elevation of any location in the world..."
Added: 16 July 2009;
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- Viewing Census Data on Google Maps
- posted by Keir Clarke. Google Maps Mania, Thursday, July 16, 2009. "The Cynergy Systems Map is a Google Maps based interface for viewing census data sets. The map allows you to view the census data for any zipcode in the US..."
Added: 16 July 2009;
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- Government APIs and Mashups Dashboard
- Programmable Web. "There are two primary classes of government APIs and mashups: those developed by governments themselves, as services provided for their citizens; and those developed independently by citizens and citizen organizations to provide information to others regarding government-related activities..."
Added: 19 May 2009;
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- Using Mashups to Create a More Efficient Government?
- by Tina Gasperson, Programmable Web, May 14, 2009. "InternetNews.com's Kenneth Corbin recently wrote about the National Association of State CIOs conference, where White House science and technology adviser Beth Noveck spoke to attendees about opening up government processes to collaboration in an open source model. According to Corbin, Noveck hinted about an API-driven model that could produce citizen-created mashups and applications..."
Added: 19 May 2009;
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- Mashups Using Government Data: A White Paper - in pdf format (327kb)
- (This document requires the use of Adobe Acrobat Reader). Preserving State Government Digital Information Minnesota Historical Society. NDIIPP Government Mashups White Paper, Version 1, January 2009. "This white paper offers background on mashups, examines why government entities may want to make public data available for mashups, and how government data may be enhanced by mashups..." .
Added: 19 May 2009;
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This category last updated: 24 August 2011
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