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apps4nsw archive
The following apps were developed for the first apps4nsw competition in 2010. As you browse through this archived list of entries please note the following:
- many entry descriptions here are short summaries of the original submissions
- entry links may no longer be active
- do not rely on the datasets used in the applications as they may not be accurate or current
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| Award | Description | Author |
| First Prize | nsw4kids is an application which brings together all the fantastic public services available for kids in NSW. | Ronit Olovitz |
| Second Prize | Sustainability - the buzzword of today's generation. Sure, we're told to conserve energy and minimise water usage, but how does MY contribution help the world, let alone my community or country? Our idea provides a service to both residents of NSW and the NSW government, allowing households to compare - or, let's just say it - COMPETE - against others in their conservation of electricity, water, and gas. | Andrea Lau |
| Third Prize | The program will improve on the existing http://www.131500.com.au/ public transport website. The application will improve mobile phone web browsing and mapping functionality of the site. It will also add a greenhouse gas savings calculation tool so the general public can clearly see how they can reduce their carbon footprint. | Phillip Couch |
| People's Choice - Ideas | The Application SMARTCARE health card is proposed as a development to transform the actual Medicare card in a smart card solution. The development will allow to the storage of the diagnostic or clinical information in a smart card of all the beneficiaries of the Medicare that lives in NSW or whole Australia, if it were the case. | Yenfry Nieves |
| First Prize - Student | An application showing closest public transport (buses and trains), hotels, restuarunts and landmarks also including a search function. | Corey Rosevear |
| Second Prize - Student | The idea is a website which allows users to subscribe to notifications (in advance) to specific routes/roads in the Sydney metro area, and provide notifications to the user on traffic conditions for their subscribed routes during peak hours. This would primarily be via SMS, but could also use email, a mobile-optimised website, and/or an iPhone app. | Anthony Eden |
| Third Prize - Student | Mobile application to provide information about cyberbullying. | April Williams |
| People's Choice - Student | This app provides a statistical overview of the State of New South Wales. It provides an insight in the various functions of government and gives the user direct access to stimulating information. In addition to the data stored on the app various online links offer access to more comprehensive information. To that end, the app provides a user interface to the information available on existing on State Government websites. | Harrison Mitchell |
| Highly Commended | SMS name of a NSW restaurant to NSW Food Authority and you get a "yes" or "no" response depending on whether they are in the list of restaurants that have breached a Health Inspection. | Tomi Strugar |
| Highly Commended | Map "black spot" road accident data to real time GPS information as one is travelling and provide an announcement (so that driver can be more attentive during section of road or take an alternative road). | Tomi Strugar |
| Highly Commended | An easy way to follow what's going on in NSW parliament. NSW hansard, votes and proceedings, state register of members' interests, lobby register, electoral boundaries, Australian Electoral Commission records. | OpenAustralia Foundation |
| Highly Commended | An interactive map on the iPhone of parking options in urban areas of NSW to help decide whether driving is an option. This is a tool to help users track when their parking is expiring (e.g. meters, clearways) and also warn them about the potential cost of the fine. | Teresa Leung and Thommy Tran |
| Highly Commended | Starting a new business involves a lot of effort and time, a lot of that time is spent in market research and knowing more about clients and the competitors. The main aim of LMB is to help new prospective owners of businesses; which provide good and services; to identify the best location before making a final call on where to place their new venture. | Gov Data Plumbers |
| Highly Commended | A new form of 'My Health Record' and its required support, is proposed for consideration and adoption by a visionary State Government. | Peter Mason |
| Highly Commended | 250-300 items are lost on CityRail trains each day with only a 10% claim rate. This application/service would automate search and create better 2-way dialogue between the public and CityRail. | The Jenkins Partnership Pty ltd |
| Highly Commended | Sports Ground Status - Gives all sports & leisure users and parents the open/closed status of local sports ground, fields and reserves. | Simon Valla |
| Highly Commended | A web application that will help families in NSW determine which school catchment areas they currently reside in, allowing them to make a fully informed decision about the schools available to them. | Chubzilla |
| Highly Commended | An application that could tell a user, based on their address, which public school's catchment area they are in. | Nerds for Democracy |
| A website that gives you speed limits for all roads in New South Wales. | Aaron Jason Kielar | |
| A web service based application that allows users to spatially represent their own statistical data in the form of Thematic Map overlays. | NuMaps | |
| A mapping application which is able to visualise all human services and health administrative data sets at locality/suburb level. | Brian Cooper | |
| A nutrition analysis of common recipes. | Marghanita da Cruz | |
| A website for updates on all the major beaches along with weather forecasts and weather radars. | Aaron Darling | |
| Real time public transport timetable for trains, buses and ferries. It can also view fare costings (weekly/monthly). Also a map can appear which public transport is closest to you. | Suzie Terenowski | |
| Bicycle Trip Planner | Suzie Terenowski | |
| Picnic spots locator. | Suzie Terenowski | |
| Harvesting key words and phrases once per day from NSW-focussed stories on the Sydney Morning Herald website, the SLEEPLESS STATE system cross-references these keywords to the catalogue metadata of the State Library's digitised photo database. The never-ending movie of SLEEPLESS STATE is recorded for posterity so that over time it becomes a kind of 'dream-history' of NSW, showing the unconscious of the state bubbling up on to any web-networked screen that's ready to receive it. | Ross Gibson | |
| This is a very simple concept, but would be ideal for this complex requirement. It could be called NEWgle, or Nearch. Essentially it mirrors Google, but is uniquely for finding your information. It would be fast and easy for the user and will link all your sites. It will bring all the relevant information to the user in one place. This one place will become known as the first point of call for all NSW Gov information. | Tim Boydle | |
| SMS a flood warning to people living in a flood zone. | Tomi Strugar | |
| Application to view public transport timetables. | Gavin Eke | |
| Dial a number and then a SMS message will tell you the time of the next train or bus coming. | Tony Lee | |
| TAXI app- an app where you can message the taxi company when and where you need to go and at what time. | Terrin Janet Gilday | |
| This is a simple to use iPhone app which uses GeoLocation services to plot on Google Maps the exact location of speed cameras and the maximum speed limit. | Sebastian Servat | |
| Presenting SportsPal for iPhone (also available in Java). This app is a sportsmen's dream tool, which aims to create a sporting social network, where people can join games, create tournaments, find the nearest sporting facility, and much more. | Sebastian Servat | |
| An application or web service that allows users to quickly check health care availability in their region and show all health care providers in a region. The application or browser would detect the user's current location and indicate through a simple colour system whether healthcare providers availability for the day (green indicates availability, orange indicates limited availability and red indicates fully booked) and mark each health care provider on a map. | Anthony Wardley | |
| An application that allows NSW residents to quickly estimate their current power usage and identify areas outside given norms where they may be able to cut power usage. The application may also allow the user to quickly compare all power providers available in their area. | Anthony Wardley | |
| A simple application to compare the current cost of running your hot water system over time to the cost of installing a new energy efficient system and running it over time. | Anthony Wardley | |
| An application or website to allow parents to quickly find sports for children to play in their area, based certain search criteria (for example price per week). | Anthony Wardley | |
| A application or web service to allow people to quickly and easily register for projects of community benefit in a central place. This might include things like signing up for donating blood, to donate organs, or simply sign up for volunteer work. | Anthony Wardley | |
| An application that quickly and easily shows key tourist activities in an area including a tab for restaurant or dining strips, a tab for ongoing activities or sites (for example Nobbys beach in Newcastle, the Harbour bridge in Sydney, the dish at Parkes), and a third tab for festivals/one off events currently scheduled and upcoming. | Anthony Wardley | |
| Bike Paths in Sydney. | Catherine Grenfell | |
| My idea is a suburb profiler that draws data such as crime figures, public transport locations, and local schools to provide relative ratings under specific categories (eg public safety, availability of public transport) plus an overall "livability" rating. | Ryan William Tracey | |
| Real time point of sale record input from service stations to enable all transport users to make rational decisions regarding best value for money choices for fuel use. | Sri Vijay Sharma | |
| A web based application preferably with the name 'Consumer Experience', embedded within the www.fairtrading.nsw.gov.au website so that the consumers can post their bad experience. This applications take in consumer issues which cannot put under complaint category. | Sasivarnan Nataraja A | |
| Energy Analyser is a web application that displays real-time energy usage from suburbs all over Australia. The data can be divided by the number of houses in each suburb so that the average usage could be worked out. | Tim Mohr | |
| There is woeful patronage of cultural programs and events in Australia by people with a disbility. People with disabilities often cannot examine access and layout of cultural venues in advance and therefore many choose to stay away rather than be disappointed or even embarrassed. This web application will provide realistic and spatial web images (virtual tours) and audio information on the layout and accessibility of cultural venues such as the Opera House, The Museum of Contemporary Art, State Theatre, Maritime Museum etc. but also of smaller independent Theatres, Cinemas, Music Venues, Art Galleries, Museums etc. | Isolde Kopping | |
| We are seeking ideas support for an ongoing website development. The key idea we are developing is to target a major class of apps at a strategic level, relevant in a first instance to Climate Science. Its main themes are (i) that software infrastructure for Climate Science is closely linked with knowledge infrastructure for Climate Science, and (ii) that in the absence of adequate skills, Climate Science based on scientific apps may end up in disrepute. The knowledge infrastructure needed for the class of apps we are targeting is knowledge about generic Basic Linear Algebra Software (BLAS) technologies - details and history of which can be obtained at www.netlib.org. | Dr Stephen Edwards | |
| This application simplifies access to a wide range of existing websites and data sources and streamlines it into a single consistent user interface. | FindMap Pty Ltd | |
| Namestream draws on data sets published by the NSW government, augmented by community-generated data. Forget boring spreadsheets and graphs, and dive into this fun and engaging encyclopedia of names where the data turns into surprising stories of births, deaths, marriages, criminal activity, and court cases. Interactive demo: | Namestream | |
| Bullied or bully: a web site, like a community for bullied and bullies kids and teenagers, so they can have an alternative media to expose their bully problems in a anonymous way and obtain help from other kids affected. | MOMOLUGA | |
| PropertyWorth is an idea for an application that enables citizens, especially business investors and/or property sellers/buyers, to precisely estimate the feasibility of a business investment or the value of a property in a particular area in NSW. By visualizing demographic, property and business data of a selected area, users can make an initial assessment of business viability and/or property value. | InnovativeIdeas | |
| Learn 4 NSW - a learning tool designed to feed students' imaginations. | Ryan Martin Braganza | |
| Bus timetables rarely give an accurate indication of actual bus arrival times, leaving commuters apprehensive about whether they have missed their bus or whether they will still arrive at their destination at an adequate time if they wait for it to turn up. This application idea will inject some certainty into the process of using public transport and will ultimately increase usage. A commuter can use their smart phone or personal computer to view the map location and estimated time of arrival of their next bus or ferry, based on its real time GPS position. | Christopher McMahon | |
| Fit and Healthy NSW. The trends of obesity in NSW indicate that we are becoming an unhealthy state. Fit and Healthy NSW would help individuals enter their own data and compare with the ideals and with the current data. | Raul Alberto Caceres | |
| The mobile device would complement the www.geogalia.com website. The Geogalia mobile application would integrate the GPS functions of the device and the Geogalia database. It would notify people when they are in the broad vicinity of a location listed on the Geographical Names Register. It would also allow people to easily send location data to the database when they are at a landmark. | Melanie Brennan | |
| Stockwatch is an interactive application that allows users to compose music based on the quotes from the stock exchanges worldwide. Stockwatch converts the data into music in real time and subsequently performs an analysis on that music to generate music based on that. We would like to use the opportunity that the NSW government offers to expand this application to be able to use other data for example seismic and weather data. | TRAX | |
| School information. | Adam Waters | |
| A website for citizens to quickly find out which government incentives/funding/payments etc they are entitled. There are many payments and incentives that the NSW Government offers but it is very difficult to find them when you have to search across the various departments and their websites. If successful, this could be integrated with Federal Government departments so that citizens can get all the information that they require in one place. | Steve Norris | |
| Data sets from NSW government sites for cycling, crime, road safety and toursim will be used to create an application that will provide context aware visualisations of information. | Flora Salim | |
| Ever wondered what you want to do in the weekend? ActivitiesNSW is here to help you to decide. It is an iPhone application that enables NSW residents and visitors to easily and quickly find appropriate venues where they can enjoy some outdoor activities. The mashup application displays appropriate location and public facility information on Google maps based on keywords about activities entered by the user. It also suggests best activities and appropriate locations that the user can enjoy based on daily weather information. | CreativeApps | |
| Australia's marine life is very important for many reasons. The marine world is a delicate ecosystem and overfishing of even smaller species will affect the haulage of fish for human consumption. As a spearfisher in NSW it is often very difficult to know where and where not one is allowed to fish. The majority of fishermen respect Australia's marine life and want to see a sustainable system that works. There is certainly a need to provide simple and accessible information for users to protect our marine life. | Anthony Wallace | |
| The NSW Consumption Map is a proposed tool to encourage households to become more sustainable by visualizing usage of finite natural resources. | Kelvin Nicholson | |
| TransAssist is a web-based application, which provides information on train, bus, ferry and traffic services in New South Wales. Based on the Internet, TransAssist offers commuters with information from Train Timetables to Traffic Incidents that is up to date and free. | Ben Graham | |
| This idea addresses four issues faced by NSW: use of public transport, tourism, community/social gathering, and environmental issues of cars. The application compiles bus/ferry/train location data and user location data to change attitudes toward public transport, radically benefit tourism based travel around the state, motivate social activity in social centres, and get people from cars into buses, trains and ferries. | Samuel Carman |
DEV DAY 2011 |
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| Challenge Category | Award | Entry | Description | Team |
| Transport | 1st ($1 000) | Next Bus | Find what buses are coming to stops near you. | Super Map Men |
| 2nd ($500) | Tripmate | Live data for buses on a smartphone app graphically displayed on a map. | ||
| 3rd | What Bus? | |||
| Get me out of here | Locate my nearest buses. | Snow | ||
| Ping bus | SMS reminder services for buses. | |||
| Ding | The “Ding” app is for bus travellers who may be unfamiliar with their bus route or destination. The app alerts the user when their bus has passed the stop before their destination, letting them know when it’s time to press the “stop” bell. Ding!! | Dingus | ||
| What the Bus | To provide real-time “next bus” information to mobile users based on their current location. | Yahoo!7 team #47 | ||
| Busmo | The app creates an ad hoc social network around the event of waiting for a bus. It allows users to check into a bus line, see what time he next bus on that line is due to arrive, and who else checked into the line recently. | DLAB | ||
| Cross Platform Mobile POC | The submission is a mobile application framework and POC to demonstrate and encourage others to build cross platform mobile apps for iPhone, Android from one code base. The submission is built on Rhomobile, an open source framework and the code is based on our recent submission to New York City’s recent apps contest (NYC Big Apps). | Accenture | ||
| Is My Bus Late? | Shows bus stops, allows users to see arriving buses. | |||
| Energy / Environment | 1st ($1 500) | Cats & Dogs | Tells you if you need an umbrella if you’re going outside. | Cats & Dogs |
| 2nd | Shape of My Burb | Compare the sustainability profiles of NSW Local Government Areas. | cakeandjar | |
| 3rd | Excess Energy | |||
| ANGFA Aquatic Survey Database v2 | An enhancement for an existing site to enable automatic updates of relevant real-time data. More details.. | |||
| Surf Oracle | Inform surfers of beach conditions that will affect their safety and enjoyment. A Google Map provides the canvas where colour-coded wind vanes show the strength and direction of the wind. Click on the wind vane for more inform and a Twitter feed. | Surf Oracle | ||
| Spatial | 1st ($1 500) | TopoLive | Rendered NSW topographic map layer with capability to generate topo maps offline for iPhone use (useful during a natural disaster or in a remote area). | Wildwalks |
| Equal 2nd | Spot It | Display info for a specific location i.e., for lat/long. | The Odd Jobs | |
| Equal 2nd | Fancy PDF | To create a 3D solid surface in a well known format out of PointCloud LiDAR data. Airphotos could also be overlayed. | Fancy PDFers | |
| Companion Animals | 1st ($1 000) | PETrified | Allows people to quickly see how popular a cat or dog’s name is across NSW. Find quirky statistics about you area’s pet population. Pet data is overlaid on Google Maps for ease of exploration. More details.. | Petrified |
| 2nd ($500) | Doggie Wars | The NSW Companion Animals Register API provides a clean reusable interface for all interested developers. The Doggie Wars app uses this API to count dog breed numbers by postcode across the state. This is a fun way of looking at popular dog breeds/cross breeds over the state. | Puppy Power | |
| 3rd | Dogs Guide | This app provides a ready reference of dogs in an area (by postcode). It allows users to see what dog names are most popular by breed. It also provides detailed information to help users make a decision about what dog type they might be suited to. | Doggy Du | |
| Pet Finder | Search for pets and plot points on a map. More details.. | |||
| Is Bondi Full of Poodles? | Shows you what dog type is most popular, by suburb. | |||
| General | 1st ($1 500) | Suburb Search | ||
| 2nd | Hot and Healthy | This website uses available health data and presents it to users based on their area. It also allows users to interact with the data and react to it by doing different activity like finding gyms, parks etc. | Health Data Masters | |
| 3rd | Dataloco | Dataloco makes it easy for users to upload their data and then to visualise this on a Google Map. The service should be able to guide users to quickly get an overview of their data and it can work with any data sets with location information. More details.. | Dataloco | |
| Man Compass | Nerds for Democracy | |||
| COPS-BI | A key challenge faced by law enforcement is the need to respond efficiently to crime. With global operations, crime prevention authorities interact with thousands of people and institutions each day. With the overwhelming amount of information surrounding incidents, it is difficult enough to pull this information together to make it relevant, let alone to perform meaningful and complex analysis and forecasting. | Wirasoft | ||
| How Healthy Are You NSW? | This application uses NSW Health data to display summary statistics about an individual. This may include information relating to hospitalisations, diseases, life expectancy, physical exercise, diet etc. It also compares it to other area health services and provides these statistics in a friendly user interface. | |||