Description

Active Places is basically a terrible website that is very hard to use. We scraped the data and showed how easy it is to make that data available in more useful formats.

We built a KML file for Google Earth and showed the data available on an iPhone.

We built a Ruby on Rails app that provides a simple way to search for local sports facilities and displays them on an embedded Google Map.

Active Places Reloaded <http://activeplaces.jamesandre.ws>

At the presentations we were pleased to have been selected by Brian Hoadley of Directgov as a project they'd like to follow up on.

The team consisted of:

Chris Roos: <http://twitter.com/chrisroos>@chrisroos James Adam: <http://twitter.com/lazyatom>@lazyatom James Andrews: <http://twitter.com/jamesandrews>@jamesandrews Tom Taylor: <http://twitter.com/tomtaylor>@tomtaylor

For more information read Chris Roos' blog post (<http://chrisroos.co.uk/blog/2009-03-09-hack-the-government-day-rewired-state> blog post.

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