Vancouver2013

Hello Vancouverite Open Data Peeps!
We just hosted an International Open Data Hackathon (#VODHD13) in Vancouver at City Hall. Here are some of the notes we made.

Hacks
Please add to this list of hacks and projects that people worked on:

* Nanaimo also has some good open crime data if you want to expand your area. http://www.nanaimo.ca/crimereporting/home/developers?media=screen
 * Youth events calendar RSS - links?
 * Live bus feeds - links?
 * Quality of life map data mashup - links?
 * Crime data - links?
 * Council minutes: We had useful discussions on the nature of a structure (xml?) to apply to the txt file once the digitization and OCR is done.
 * Mobile Web Bike Rack App that reports data back to the cities by Ted Huang, Daniel Yuen and @mblackstock Sense Tecnic Systems @sensetecnic and MAGIC Lab
 * Rental Housing Issue Dashboard - rentals.recollect.net - @lukec created a dashboard to show off what we could be using around the city to display real-time info. Learned some limitations of the current dataset, and reported that back to the city. Dashboards are built using the |Dashing framework.
 * Air Quality Egg - David Eaves is hoping to have a few Air Quality Eggs ordered and ready for assembly that we will be able to assemble on the day. If you are interested in getting an egg, please [mailto:david@eaves.ca contact him].
 * I'm interested in doing a language census of the Vancouver data. My vision is that apps based on Vancouver open data should be localised into all the languages Vancouver residents want them in. As a building block, identify data feeds which are free of human-readable text, feeds which have have human-language texts embedded, and what it would take to allow projects to localise those texts. Jim DeLaHunt (talk) 06:29, 23 February 2013 (UTC)
 * See Vancouver Open Data language census project page for the census so far.


 * Address merging with OSM: finished addressmerge commit

Other ideas:
 * Wheredoesmymoneygo - it would be great if we could get city budget data, parse it, and create a version of Wheredoesmymoneygo that works for the city of Vancouver. There is a great example of what it can look like here
 * The City of Vancouver Archives will looking for feedback on formatting of plain-text versions of City Council minutes created by OCR. We'll have a sample.
 * The City of Vancouver recently (if I recall correctly) released schedules of playing fields. It would be nice to integrate that with a map: find the field that is closest to a user-supplied address; find the closest field with a slot available at the given time; click on a field on a map and see the schedule for that field.