Presentations from Meet the Data Owners, Melbourne, 24 June

1. Victoria 2014: Bigger and better
Principal Sponsors Gold Sponsors
Data suppliers and sponsors

2. GovHack 2014
Matthew Willcox, Lorraine Tighe, Ross Nicholson, Christabel
McCarthy, Kieran McLeod
June 24 – Library at the Dock

3. Everything you need can be
found here:
https://data.melbourne.vic.gov.au/

4. And here…
http://www.data.vic.gov.au/

5. Data you might like to
start exploring…
• Any data that might impact on people’s ability to navigate the
city and improve their situational awareness:
• Locations of infrastructure – public art, toilets, trees,
parking spots (CoM)
• Building specific information – locations of entrances, ease
of access etc (CoM)
• Event/social media data

6. Data you might like to
start exploring…
• Any data that might show how the City and/or it’s environment is
performing
• Urban forest database (CoM)
• Analysis of parking network optimisation (CoM)
• Pedestrian count data (CoM)
• Weather
• Public transport
• Water/Air Quality

7. What you need to know
about our data…
• Ours is a pilot open data
platform – many of the datasets
are historic dumps.
• Our data stops at our
boundaries.
• It’s granular
• It’s unique – Trees!

8. And just for the fun of it…
https://github.com/bluecats

9. Contact details:
Matthew.Willcox@melbourne.vic.gov.au
Lorraine.tighe@melbourne.vic.gov.au
Kieran.Mcleod@melbourne.vic.gov.au

10. Data Jam
24th
June 2014
GovtHack
July 11-13th July 2014

11. Who are we ?
Public Transport Victoria (PTV) is a
statutory authority that acts as a system
authority for all public transport and an
advocate for public transport users.
PTV is a single contact point for customers
wanting information on public transport
services, fares, tickets and initiatives.
Leading our public transport network – for all Victorians today and tomorrow.

12. Key datasets www.data.vic.gov.au

13. Key datasets (Timetable API)
NextDeparting/All
Run/ForRun
Search/Search
Navigation/StopsForLine
Search/NearMe
Map/All
HealthCheck/All
This API returns all departure times from a stop for a specific line and in a specific direction.
The Stopping Pattern API returns all the times for stops that a particular vehicle will stop at on a specific service run (that is, specific line, direction and point in
time).
The Search API returns all stops and lines that include the search term.
The Stops on a Line / Route API returns all the stops along a specific line.
Stops Nearby returns the stops nearest to a specified coordinate. (30)
This API returns a list of transport points of interest (POIs) in a region described by coordinates. POIs can be any or all of stations, stops or myki ticket outlets.
A check on the timely availability, connectivity and reachability of the services that deliver security, caching and data to web clients
API user registration
To access the PTV Timetable API, API users must register for a security key and
developer ID. Both are needed to calculate the signature which is passed with every
API request.
Users must send an email to APIKeyRequest@ptv.vic.gov.au with the words “PTV
Timetable API – request for key” in the subject line.
PTV will then send them an email with the security key and developer ID.
BeforeGovtHack-July11th

14. Public Transport customers are better informed to make PT choices
Coffee Shop PIDs
Shop PIDs
Timetable API
Time: Car v Public Transport
T.96 – 5mins
B.907 – 7mins

15. Events data
Vanessa Scott, Content Manager – vic.gov.au
24 June 2014

16. Lists events across Victoria
Victorian Government events- online
calendar
API feeds into VicEvents mobile app
Various categories – Arts,
Community, Sport, & more
Anyone can submit event
Currently merging with Events
Victoria
What we do

17. Events

18. http://www.data.vic.gov.au/data_tool/events-victoria-
rss-feed/5840
http://www.data.vic.gov.au/data_tool/events-victoria-
widget/5841
http://www.eventsvictoria.com/distribution-centre/ -
Widget, White Label, RSS feed
Data sources

19. VicEvents
Vanessa Scott
vanessa.scott@dsdbi.vic.gov.au
Events Victoria, Tourism Victoria
James Callendar
james.callendar@tourism.vic.gov.au
Talk to us!

21. 2014 Town and community
profiles
•An area-based statistical resource for DH/DHS
planners which provides information at the sub-LGA
level
•Present key planning information for more than 1,000
communities in Victoria
•Produced every 2-3 years; this version replaces the
2011 version
•Available publicly on the Department of Health website

22. Geographic structure
•Three types of communities – towns, suburbs and
catchments (rural areas with population who travel to
nearby towns/suburbs to access services)
•Town and suburb boundaries based on existing ABS
boundaries
•Catchment boundaries modelled using a Huff gravity
model.
•All communities aggregated from ABS Statistical Area 1
(SA1) geography – the smallest geography the full suite
of Census data is available at.

24. Profile data
•Population – Estimated Resident Population and
recent population change
•Geographic data including: land use; ARIA+;
administrative regions
•Service/facilities available in the community
•A large range of Census data including: household and
dwelling characteristics; social, economic and
educational characteristics; and a range of diversity
characteristics.
•Hospital accessibility and utilisation data

26. Accessing the data
•Regional volumes (PDF) available from Department of
Health website: http://www.health.vic.gov.au
•Full data set (XLS) is also available here
•Individual files for each community (XLS) are also
available for download at Data.Vic:
http://www.data.vic.gov.au/
•Please use the data in conjunction with the data
definitions – available at relevant download locations.

27. Questions or comments?
spatial@health.vic.gov.au

28. GovHack 2014
Pre Event Meetup / Data Jam
24 June 2014

29. Overview • VicRoads supports Victoria’s liveability
and economic prosperity by planning,
developing and managing the arterial
road network and delivering registration
and licensing services.
• Our key role is to help provide
Victorians with safe and easy
connections to the people and places
that matter most to them.
– 22,000 kilometres of road
– 3,133 bridges
– 22 million transactions per year
– 3.7 million licensed drivers
– 4.9 million registered vehicles
– 3,000 staff
– 50 offices

30. Key Objectives
• Operate and maintain the road
system to help our customers
travel easily and reliably
• Develop the road system to
improve connections between
places that are important to our
customers
• Improve road safety
• Make the road system more
environmentally sustainable.

31. Challenges
• Population growth
• Freight
• Low carbon transport operations
• Resilient infrastructure
• Asset management
• Complex information
management

32. Traffic Lights (SCATS)
3,500+ Sites Collecting
Traffic Volume,
Phasing, Congestion
Melbourne Freeways
(1,000+km 20,000+
detectors) collecting
Speed, Volume,
Occupancy, Classification
– every 20 seconds
Probe Vehicles – Taxi,
Trucks, latest vehicles.
Speed data provided
3rd party Other Data Sets
Weather, Holidays, GIS Data Sets
Other Data Sets
Crashes, Traffic Volume
Asset Data, Asset
Condition
Traffic Cameras (450) Freeway
and Arterial Network
VicRoads is the authoritative
source for road closure data. –
distributed to other
emergency agencies
VicRoads is the authoritative
source for near Real time
reporting. One of the busiest
web sites for the Government
Network
Performance
Indicators.
Dashboards,
Treatment
evaluation, Trend
Analysis
Traffic Data

33. VicTraffic

34. Published on DataVic
DataSet Format
VicRoads declared road
route network
KMZ
Road use hierarchy KMZ
VicRoads Offices KML
VicRoads Regions KML
Principal Bicycle network KMZ
Municiple Bicycle Network KMZ
Metropolitan Trail Network KMZ
Crashstats - application -
issues
Application
Speed Data by road
segment
Excel
Turning Movements Excel
Hourly Volume Data by
road segment
Excel
Lane Width Excel
Arterial Road Traffic
volumes
Excel
Bridges with a posted gross
mass limit
Excel
Bicycle volumes Excel
Truck curfews not yet on DataVic but on
website

35. What others have done ...

36. What others have done ..

37. What others have done ...

38. Contacts
Adrian Porteous, Information Architect
adrian.porteous@roads.vic.gov.au
0439 004 118
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39. Vicmap API & Data.Vic
• Data.Vic spatial data
• Vicmap API
Services
• Web Mercator
• VicGrid
• Mobile
Peter Debicki
Spatial Services DEPI

40. Data Vic Gov
• site went live on 1 July 2013
• Over 8000 data sets available
• Over 840 are spatial
• FREE

41. Now

42. Vicmap API Website
http://api.maps.vic.gov.au/

43. Vicmap API Services
• OpenLayers API ver. 2.13
– Vic Grid
– Web Mercator
– Mobile – VicGrid
– WMTS

44. Vicmap API Links
• Production:
• http://api.maps.vic.gov.au/vicmapapi/
• http://api.maps.vic.gov.au/vicmapapi-mercator/
• Provided on hand out

45. GovHack Meet up
Tuesday 24 June 2014
Paul Corkill
Manager Waterway User
Safety

46. Transport Safety Victoria – Who are we?
• TSV is the government regulator for recreational and
commercial boating activity in Victoria (we also regulate bus
and rail transport)
• We licence users, register boats and make rules that apply
to all boaters on Victorian Waters (eg. Speed limits and
special use zones)
• TSV is the waterway manager for 12 waterways, including
most of the coast and state significant navigational lights
• Oversees 59 independent waterway managers across the
state

47. Transport Safety Victoria – Who goes
boating?

48. Rules of the Road
• Waterway rules tell boaters how fast you can go.
• Zones tell you what types of activities
can happen and where, eg. waterski
areas, sailboard only and no boating
zones
• Currently communicated through
antiquated, wordy description of zones
on our website
• Rules are poorly understood and
compliance is low

49. • Project to comprehensively map Victoria’s boating zones is
nearing completion.
• 175 major boating waterways are being mapped
• Is used internally, not available publically
• All states of Australia have similar challenges, none have
published data
• Opportunity now to improve understanding of boating
rules by graphically representing rules and zones
Transport Safety Victoria - Data mapping

50. Mapping Data

51. Transport Safety Victoria - Data mapping
Transport Safety Victoria - Data mapping
• Data now available on
http://www.data.vic.gov.au/raw_data/transport-safety-victoria-
waterways-zones/5640
• Data is in mapinfo.tab

52. Paul Corkill
Manager Waterway User Safety
Paul.corkill@transportsafety.vic.gov.au
9655 9768
Ricky Dong
Technical Solutions Analyst
Ricky.Dong@transportsafety.vic.gov.au
9655 8667
Transport Safety Victoria - Contacts

53. Data:
Building Permit Activity
VBA participation in GovHack 2014

54. The Victorian Building Authority
• independent
statutory authority
• regulating:
–building
industry
–plumbing
industry

55. Why does the VBA exist
ensure the safety, livability and
sustainability of the built environment

56. Data: Building Permit Activity
• regulated building work is reported to the
Victorian Building Authority
• a record of each building permit issued in
Victoria since 2008

57. So what’s in a building permit record
Oodles of data:
•over 40 pieces of information per record
•details of what was built (or demolished)
•how much it cost
•where it was built
•building purpose
•levy paid
•when it was built
•time series per year from July 2008

58. Why is Building Permit Activity important
• economic indicator
• building industry
trends
• planning trends
• collection of building
permit Levy for VBA

59. Who cares about the data
• private sector
– building companies
– economic forecasting
agencies
• industry bodies
– Master Builders
Association
– Housing Industry
Australia
• municipal councils
• other government
agencies

60. What’s the format
XLSB format:
•small file sizes
•Excel ease of use
•convertibility
•internal technical
hurdles

61. When and where
When:
SOON! (hopefully)
Where:
data.vic.gov.au
vba.vic.gov.au/data

62. Any other questions
Julian R Horwill
Business Intelligence Advisor
data@vba.vic.gov.au
Tennie Lau
Data and Reporting Officer
data@vba.vic.gov.au

63. National Map
Overview
Bill Simpson-Young, NICTA
24 June 2014
(Initiative of Commonwealth
Department of Communications,
NICTA and Geoscience Australia)

64. Map browser
code and data
mgmt
Map browser
code and data
mgmt
Govt open
data
directory
Govt open
data
directory
Vision: An open national map
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Web browser
…
Value-add
commercial and
community
services (analytics,
visualisations,
mashups)
Map
imagery
Map
imagery
Tile map
server
Elevation
data
Elevation
data
Terrain
server
C/wealth govt agency
authoritative data services
InternetInternet
Tablet
Other data
and services
Other data
and services
Data.gov.au
ABS
data
ABS
data
GA
data
GA
data
BoM
data
BoM
data
…
State govt authoritative
data services
WA
data
WA
data
QLD
data
QLD
data
State
data
State
data
…

65. 10 design goals for an open national map1. Authoritative data services
– Eg Administrative boundaries, place names
1. Multi-jurisdiction
– Live data services for commonwealth, states, local government
1. Multi-custodian
– Live data services from different agencies - GA, ABS, BoM, state agencies
1. Multi-vendor (at back end)
– ESRI’s ArcGIS, Google Maps Engine, open source software (eg Geoserver)
1. Multi-format
– OGC-compliant data services, KML, GeoJSON, CSV, etc
1. Open framework
– All data sets and services available for other compatible front-ends
1. Open source
– Open source front-end; back-end data services can use open source
1. Easy access to the data set/service itself from the National Map UI
– Map provides visualisation but all data can be directly accessed too
1. Features not available in most current globes
– Timeline, subsurface, etc
1. Platform for commercial, community and agency innovation
– Interfaces to support value-add services (eg analytics, visualisation, sharing, printing)
66

66. Existing
open source
software
Architecture: In-browser
67
Browser (eg Chrome, Firefox, Internet Explorer, Safari) on
desktop and mobile
Browser (eg Chrome, Firefox, Internet Explorer, Safari) on
desktop and mobile
National Map User InterfaceNational Map User Interface
Leaflet (open source 2D map
display)
Leaflet (open source 2D map
display)
Geospatial Data Manager
(Selecting and loading data sets and services)
Geospatial Data Manager
(Selecting and loading data sets and services)
Cesium (open source 3D
map display)
Cesium (open source 3D
map display)
NICTA is
developing
these
Connects to services:
OGC, ESRI, GME
Data loading:
URL, Drag and drop
Data formats:
KML, CSV, GeoJSON, etc
Canvas supportCanvas supportWebGL supportWebGL support

67. User pathways into National Map
68
…

68. Integration with CKAN (eg data.gov.au)
69

69. 70

70. Currently available data services• All now available from their custodian and in National Map
• Land (Geoscience Australia)
– Gravity, land cover, magnetic image, surface geology, hillshade
• Water (Bureau of Meteorology’s Geofabric)
– Water bodies, streams and rivers, catchments, estuaries, boreholes, waterholes,
river regions, drainage divisions, aquifer contours, water table aquifers
• Infrastructure (Geoscience Australia’s Geotopo 250k)
– Roads, railroads, airports, ferry routes, pipelines, power lines
• Boundaries (Australian Bureau of Statistics)
– States and territories, local government areas, postal areas, commonwealth
electoral divisions, state electoral divisions, state suburbs, natural resource
management regions, Australian drainage divisions, tourism regions, statistical
boundaries
• Population (Geoscience Australia)
– Cities
– Populated places
• Other data sets and services via data.gov.au
• More coming!71

71. How to use National Map at Govhack
1. Use NM to see and get available data sets and services
2. Create own data services (eg WMS data services using
other NM data services) for use with NM
3. Create own data services collection file that points to
your data services
4. Contribute to the National Map code base (bug fixes,
features)
5. Build a value-add back-end service for NM
6. Build a value-add front-end service (no coding needed)
7. Write your own code that uses the NM data services
8. Fork the code and make your own version
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72. How to use National Map at Govhack
1. Use NM to see and get available data sets and services
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73. How to use National Map at Govhack
2. Create own data services (eg WMS data services using
other NM data services) for use with NM
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InternetInternet
Geospatial
data
Geospatial
data Data
service
Derived
data
service

74. How to use National Map at Govhack
3. Create own data services collection file that points to
your data services
75

75. How to use National Map at Govhack
4. Contribute to the National Map code base (bug fixes,
features)
76

76. How to use National Map at Govhack
5. Build a value-add back-end service for NM
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InternetInternet
?
Defined RESTful interface to
geospatial services:
- Extent
- Data sets
- Basemap
Geospatial
data
Geospatial
data
Data
service
National Map front end

77. How to use National Map at Govhack
6. Build a value-add front-end service (no coding needed)
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InternetInternet
?
Geospatial
data
Geospatial
data
Data
service
National Map front end
Custom data format for
interactive geospatial
applications
Coming soon…

78. How to use National Map at Govhack
7. Write your own code that uses the NM data services
79
InternetInternet
?
Geospatial
data
Geospatial
data
Data
service
(No National Map front-end)

79. How to use National Map at Govhack
8. Fork the code and make your own version
80
?

80. National Map status
• Beta will be released in time for Govhack (11-
13 July)
• Any custodian wanting their data set or
service in the National Map…
– Add it to data.gov.au; and/or
– Email nationalmap@lists.nicta.com.au or
contact bill.simpson-young@nicta.com.au
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81. https://data.gov.au/dataset?jurisdiction=City+of+Greater+Geelong

83. Built Environment
Roads
speed limits
truck route?
Parking
Road Signs
Building Outlines (Roofprints)
Retail
Built Environment Inventory
distance to public transit, proximity to greengrocer
density of liquor stores, tobacco shops

84. Built Environment Inventory

85. Natural Environment
Open Space
Street and Park Trees
Amenities
Playgrounds
Barbeques
Public Toilets
Utility
Street Addresses

86. Built Environment
Natural Environment
Amenities
Utility
Good luck!