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List Of Presentations And Winners

Videos are now live over on You Tube

Winners:

  • First Prize - Day Trippin' (entire Lonely Planet Library)
  • LP User Segmentation API - Pocket Planet (Asus Eee PC)
  • Best use of LP User Segmentation Data - Pocket Planet (Asus Monitor)
  • GovHack First Prize - Hack Sack (Wacomm Tablet)
  • Second Prize - MashSQL (Meccano Sets)
  • Special Prize - Pinggo (Asus Eee PC)

Staff Prizes

  • First Prize - John - City Guide Live ($350)
  • Second Prize - Ken - Pick & Mix 2.0 ($150)

Ideas: (my notes from the presentations on Sunday afternoon)
We did video all of the presentations and I'll make those available this afternoon.

Ken Hoetmer Pick n' Mix 2.0 Taking mediawiki'd information in guidebooks and lets you put them all together and turn them into your own book via presopedia guides 'add' wikipedia' pages to a PDF. Create your own lp book out of wikified content. Change the order of the content, create chapters, edit titles and names - export a PDF

Julian Doherty, John Viner, Johnny Cussin CityGuideLive Community engagement in our city guide - can put in your LP username and password - set your lat and long - whilst out - want to connect with your community of your group - displays where these members actually are - can click on the user and get into the actual group and see their profile on Groups - can chat with them and see what people are doing in real-time. JULIAN - Groups demo - City Guide live runs on the actual Groups platform - can click on the user in the map in groups and view their profile and see what they're up to

Chris Marmo, Miek Dunbar, Ash Gibson, Hugh Macdonald, Jeremy Yuille Pocket Planet take the traveler type, where & when you're going, and what Lonely Planet traveller type you are. Plan a trip - gives you a list of POIs that are appropriate for your travellers type - drag and drop into your itinerary - in the back it pulls government post codes from the POI's - outputs a PDF (in pocketmod format) that you can fold up and gives you everything you need for your trip - weather - government data - meet ups - etc..

Brianna Laugher frogspotter frogs! Data set for government frog sightings - public sightings of frogs - mashup of the frog data on the map - can see the individual sightings and then they're coloured by species - then links to the frog database - dates of spottings possible

Sarah Simmonds, John Spencer, Nathan Parslow Day Trippin plan day trips and road trips from a certain city - have a start-from - will take a distance from the 'home' city - you can select things you're interested in - will then go away and find stuff for you to do that distance from the city - targeted at social planners builds out 'live' - works all over the world - can add extra way points - can mess with the preferences 'live' - it's a bit slow because of our API - will also give you a random place regardless of your prefs - direction is random

Pat Allan, Steve Bartlett FACT: Facts for Australia's Clever Traveller aimed at the social traveller - iPhone doesn't work in other countries - no data - want something to take with you and print out - linked with dopplr using your email address - gets all your travel data of where you've been - let's you click through to your historic trips - will pull the LP data for that trip and smart traveller - displays our POIs for that city - can grab what you want to do drag them over into an itineray can then hit print and generates a printable PDF to take with you complete with all details LP holds.

Leon Messerschmidt POI Excellence visualisation of what data LP have - nice graphical work - very nice visualisation of what data we have - auto checking of data - can check our data against the data on the web.

Isaac Su, Nicholas Ling Pinggo load the page on your iPhone and it displays POIs around where you are - takes our data and applys words like 'happy' or 'cool' what does 'good food' mean? How do you layer that on top of our API data? Can ping a place and pass on your emotion of how you feel about it. - When you visit you add that data to our POI. Artwork is generated by what people say about the POI - can then put that in a device in a physical space - colour changes depends on reviews - stunning stunning work

Simon De Sousa, Amanda Finnis, Conan Tran, Katherine Alsop Hack Sack Solar water in your house - how much you'll save by putting in solar - my solar saver - you can select and specify your area and other things that affect your choice- supposed to be inspirational - takes the spotlight data about your area and displays it - hooks into yellow pages to identify providers of solar services in your area - can also plug into solar calculator to work out how much you'll save.

Maxim Shklyar - 3 ideas presented Geotagging ratings - displays the LP POIs on the page -plus how many photos have been taken there LP POIS + Photos

Mashql - mash government data and make it easy for other people to use - so may data sets are available - this puts them together and allows developers to use the data much much better -

LP connect - not presented working - connect people based on where they're travelling in Groups

Andy & Matt live partner client - automatically add and remove people from groups based on their location - so twitter, facebook and lp groups - so before you get there you're getting information about where you're going - built an app on the open social platform - runs a rails app that lets you add and remove activities - our API isn't serving activities - auto sign up -

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