Sponsors: Statistics New Zealand, New Zealand Geospatial Office, and the Spatial Sciences Institute. Support from IBM.
What: Mash Up 2008 is an event that brings together New Zealand's leading technical experts and budding enthusiasts in combining information sources in innovative ways to present and examine social, economic or environmental issues with spatial analysis capability.
The Golden Rule: We encourage collaboration and require documentation of resources. Please acknowledge all of your project resources (people, data, technology, standards) with metadata. We recommend the ANZLIC metadata profile v1.1: http://www.anzlic.org.au/metadata/
Please note the following updates: We are still working to finalising the rules (it's a work in progress!). We have already learnt lots from the valuable feedback we have received already. However, we want to get the rules right - rather than jeopardising this opportunity by kicking off the mash up before we're ready. So rather than using the bar camp to present beta version of your mash ups (as previously proposed), we would like use the bar camp as a opportunity to discuss, agree, and finalise the rules. We would like to discuss whether we are creating a space that encourages the sharing of ideas (collaboration). Are the right incentives in place for this opportunity to collaborate? For example, are we including potentialy valuable propriatary ideas from the big companies? We think that the best way to answer these types of questions about how we set up the mash up is to talk with you people who're interested in participating. For those of you who are so enthusiastic that you've started your mash up already, fear not. You're efforts are not in vain! Although the focus of the bar camp is no longer to present your efforts and spark ideas off others, the mash-up will be started following the bar camp. And participant can discuss, amongsts other things, when entries need to be submitted.
Latest Updates (Thursday 30 April 08) Please find a copy of the DRAFT rules for your information - to be discussed, agreed, and finalised at tomorrow's Bar Camp. I'm not sure how to upload a work document to this site, so I've simply cut and pasted the text. Sorry about the formatting!
Geospatial Mash-up 2008
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. It sets out to show how open source software and open standards can be used to analyse and display data. The key is to produce a tool that people, who aren’t GIS specialists, can use easily.
What will you make in your mash-up?
You will o host and web serve some or all of the data using OGC standards o make a tool for analysing and displaying the data
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 organising this mash-up?
o Statistics New Zealand o the New Zealand Geospatial Office o the State Services Commission (Geospatial Standards and Architecture) o the Spatial Sciences Institute.
Where are the data? (1) The topographic data at https://maps.napier.govt.nz/mashup_2008.php (2) The cadastral data at https://maps.napier.govt.nz/mashup_2008.php (3) Statistics New Zealand meshblock datasets boundaries at http://www.stats.govt.nz/census/census-outputs/meshblock/default.htm?tab=Download And digital boundaries at http://www.stats.govt.nz/statistics-by-area/regional-statistics/geography-mapping/download-digital-boundaries.htm
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.
o any common visualisation tool which can be downloaded free from the internet. o any other geospatial data web served on the internet as at 1 April 2008. o other services available free on the internet (like graphing and analysis services) o your own code o any open source applications and code available on the internet
What else do you need to do
o register at http://www.barcamp.org.nz/ o finish your Mash-up and give it to the organisers by 30 May 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. Note however, that 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:
o can people untrained in GIS use the tool easily and intuitively? o does the tool let users analyse the data usefully at appropriate levels of quality? o does the tool let users address the useful features in the data? o is the code clever and innovative? o how well have other services been integrated into the tool? o what is the quality of geospatial representation of the data and analysis of it? o how well any graphing or components of the tool and display data augment the geospatial representation?
Winners: The prize winners will be announced on 1 June 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 o ensure that the tool you make in your Mash-up complies with the GNU General Public Licence v2 o supply source code and reasonably complete documentation for the data structure web services and tool. o ensure the source code and documentation complies with the GNU fee documentation license.
Organisers will provide forms and more detail about what you need to do.
Other things you can do
o come, or nominate someone else to come, to the bar camp in Wellington on 1 May 2008 with a beta version of your tool and a computer to display it, and discuss with other entrants and the organisers. The bar camp is going to be held at Toi Pōneke, The Wellington Arts Centre, located at 61 Abel Smith Street - the top of Cuba Street. o Present, or nominate someone else to present, the beta version of your tool at the GOVIS conference in Wellington on 2 May
Note please ensure that you can plug in your Mash-up application to a data projector for the above presentations.
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.
