Kitchener-Waterloo2013

Open Data Waterloo Region
OpenDataWR is pleased to announce that there was a hackathon in Kitchener-Waterloo!

= Achievement Unlocked! = On Saturday, 23 February 2013 four teams of hackers created the following OpenData applications:
 * Public Health Food Premise inspection data
 * Clean dataset - removed white space, reducing raw data from 80 MBytes to 8 MBytes (Jonathan)
 * Import data into Sqlite database (Koo)
 * Create User Interface for Web application (Katherine)
 * GitHub repository
 * Create interface to GTFS (transit data) application to model trial routes and route changes (Michael and Mike)
 * Improve Catchr transit app to cut server request time in half (Brett)
 * Create mockup for a Get Map button for OpenStreetMap on Thunderbird Lightning add-in (William and Bob)
 * Create proof-of-concept pushbutton app for Android (Darcy)

Follow the Twitter conversation with hashtags #watreg #OpenDataDay and #ykf #OpenDataDay.

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Location
Kwartzlab (map) 33 Kent St. Kitchener, Ontario, Canada

Agenda
Saturday, 23 February 2013 from 2:00pm to 10:00pm

2:00pm - Hack 3:00pm - Hack 4:00pm - Hack 5:00pm - Hack 6:00pm - Anybody want to chip in $10 for a pizza? 7:00pm - Hack 8:00pm - Hack 9:00pm - Hack 10:00pm - Done!

Can we get someone from the Region or the City of Waterloo to introduce their data?

Should we have a demo session near the end of the night?

Projects

 * Integrate an OpenStreetMap "Map" button for Thunderbird Lightning location data
 * Plot the WatCamp data on OpenStreetMap

What else?

Datasets
Add 'em if you've got 'em!
 * Region of Waterloo's Open Data Portal
 * Region of Waterloo real-time airport flight schedule feed
 * City of Waterloo Open Data
 * City of Kitchener Municipal Data (from University of Waterloo)
 * University of Waterloo Open Data API

Other datasets at 2013/Data.

Participants

 * Bob Jonkman @bobjonkman (tentative)
 * William Park
 * Katherine Biefer

- Many thanx to Kwartzlab for hosting the hackathon with so little notice!