Anything Goes Remix
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Sponsored by:
DigitalNZ
"New Zealand's Great Walks" by My Tours (Natalie Ferguson, Oliver Clarke and Glen Barnes)
Description
New Zealand's Great Walks creatively re-uses a large range of open content sources to present cultural, environmental and tourism information in the field. As judge Anne Galloway states "Its ease of use, coupled with a substantial amount of useful information, supports informed tourism". Category Sponsored by Digital New Zealand
$2000 is awarded to the best creative remix that uses Creative Commons, public domain, no known copyright, or openly licensed New Zealand digital content. This section was for creative remix entries that don’t fit into any of the other specific categories.
This entry was not eligible for the data mashup section. The entry was judged for the creative remix of the open content. Judges were taken with the impressive and significant work that went into locating, sourcing and structuring the excellent open content.
Selected judges' comments
- "It compiles material from a range of sources (all of it painstakingly attributed), presenting it in a fashion that better serves active users who can access it while actually out in those places."
- "Powerful app with wonderful range of content. Can't wait to come back [to New Zealand] use it."
My Tours Team description of their entry:
New Zealand's Great Walks is a mobile app to promote the Great Walks and to encourage more people to explore some of the best New Zealand has to offer. We've taken information from DOC, Te Ara, Radio NZ, Wikipedia and Flickr to create an app with a lot of extra content that you don't get on a single website. We've also tried to use a lot of interpretative content - A lot of the time people think of open data as images, spreadsheets but we wanted to showcase what can be done if government opens the content of their websites as well. Hopefully apps like these will encourage departments to license their website content under a simple CC-BY license. The app is currently iOS and we may have a Windows Phone 7 version out within the next couple of weeks. Unique features of the app include full offline support including maps so there is no expensive data to use once the tours are downloaded, audio tracks of NZ birds, routes downloaded from the DOC GeoPortal and tons of photos from Flickr and Wikimedia. The app is not yet available in the app store - but it will be soon!
Update:NZ's Great Walks is available in the Windows Phone 7 app store.
Sources
Content has come from various sources including: Te Ara, DOC, Flickr, Wikimedia, RadioNZ/DOC. In the app all content is tagged with its source and any My Tours specific info is released under a CC-By license. There is also a page in the app outlining and linking to the sources.
- Photos tagged with GFDL have been released under the GNU Free Documentation License.
- Photos tagged Wikimedia:[username] have come from the Wikimedia Commons.
- Photos tagged Flickr:[username] have come from Flickr.
- Content tagged "CC-" has been licensed under a Creative Commons License. See their website for details on the different licenses.
- Content from the Department of Conservation has been used in accordance with their copyright statement.
- Content from http://www.teara.govt.nz/ Te Ara - the Encyclopaedia of New Zealand has been used in accordance with their copyright statement (non commercial use).
- Bird sounds from RadioNZ (via DOC) are used under permission of Sirocco Kakapo the Spokesbird for DOC.
- Any content created by My Tours is released under a CC-BY license.
