Geospatial Mash-up 2008 Rules
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Prizes
- 1st – Travel, accommodation, and registration for the FOSS4G conference in Capetown in October 2008
- 2nd – 1 × Terabyte Drive
- 3rd – 1 × Terabyte Drive
Event
Geospatial Mash-up 2008 brings together leading technical experts and budding enthusiasts. The aim of the event is to showcase how geospatial data about New Zealand can be used. The New Zealand Geospatial Office seeks to highlight the value of being able to easily combine and reuse data for multiple purposes. In addition, the Office seeks to show how open source software and open source standards can be used to analyse and display data.
What will you make in your mash-up?
You will create a web application that combines data that is freely available from more than one source into a single integrated tool.
Who can work on your mash-up?
Anyone you like, but you (or someone you collaborate with) will need to know how to put geospatial software together.
Who is supporting this mash-up?
- Statistics New Zealand (key sponsor)
- the New Zealand Geospatial Office
- the State Services Commission (Geospatial Standards and Architecture)
- the Spatial Sciences Institute
- IBM (afternoon tea for bar camp on 1 May 08)
- Ian Tidy (for his kind efforts making the topo and cadastral data for the Hawke’s Bay Region available online – cheers Ian!)
- Everyone who came along to the BarCamp on 1 May 08 in Wellington
Where are the data?
You must use at least some of the data available on the Statistics NZ website
- The topographic data at [1]
- The cadastral data at [2]
- Statistics New Zealand 2006 Census meshblock datasets boundaries at [3]
- And digital boundaries at [4]
More information about the data is in the annex.
What else can you use in your Mash-up?
As well as using all or some of the data above you can use:
- any common visualisation tool which can be downloaded free from the internet
- propriety 3rd party tools, web services, and Application Programme Interfaces (APIs) (e.g. Google Maps) may be used, but these tools and APIs must be available from the Internet free of charge and can not be a trial or demonstration licence
- any other geospatial data web served on the internet as at 27 May 2008 and available free of charge
- other services available free on the internet (like graphing and analysis services)
- your own code
- any open source applications and code available on the internet
What else do you need to do?
- people are instructed to register at here - you should sign up to the email list and the wiki (see instructions in panel on right of wiki home page).
- finish your Mash-up and give it to the organisers by 1 July 2008
More detail about what you need to do is in the annex
Who will judge your Mash-up?
Judges will be appointed by the organisers and notified to participants. The names of specific judges are yet to be confirmed. Yet we anticipate appointing approximately four judges to the panel. We will ensure that some of the judges will be familiar with technical aspects of developing open source Mash-ups and some judges will be appointed on the basis of their more general understanding of using the Mash-ups.
How will your Mash-up be judged?
The judges will consider these questions:
- can people untrained in GIS use the tool easily and intuitively?
- does the tool let users analyse the data usefully at appropriate levels of quality?
- does the tool let users address the useful features in the data?
- is the code clever, distinct and innovative?
- how well have other services been integrated into the tool?
- what is the quality of geospatial representation of the data and analysis of it?
- how well any graphing or components of the tool and display data augment the geospatial representation?
- what is the quality of feedback, i.e. do supporting documents provide clear, constructive advice to government about how to make data more easily combined and reused for multiple purposes?
The judges’ final decision will be on the basis of mutual agreement. Decision to award prizes will be at the discretion of the panel of judges. And the judges’ decision will be full and final and there is no right of appeal.
Winners
The prize winners will be announced on 15 July 2008.
Annex
The data
The data is a derivative work. Derived from LINZ data and is supplied to you subject to the obligations on 3rd parties provided for in the LINZ Landonline Bulk Data Supply Agreement (for cadastral data) and the LINZ DVD 1:50,000 Topographic Vector Data Supply Agreement (for topographic data).
- http://www.linz.govt.nz/docs/surveysystem/landonline-bulkdata/bulk-data-supply-agreement.pdf
- http://www.linz.govt.nz/docs/topography/topographicdata/topodtabase/licence-agreement-1.pdf
You must NOT contact LINZ about the data.
Other things you must do
You must:
- Use Open Source software
- Supply source code and reasonably complete documentation for any web services and tools. The documentation has to provide a reasonable level of description about how the software functions, i.e. your document will provide a user-guide.
- Develop your tool using open source technology, or technology that can be made available via an appropriate open source licence agreement (see http://www.opensource.org/licences for more information). Basically, we want people to share what they’ve done.
How organisers will communicate with the contestants
The organisers will communicate with contestants by posting at www.barcamp.org.nz and by email to the address you supply when registering.
