Safety in Numbers map

Crowdsourcing platform for geographic road safety data.

• Technologies: Mapbox GL JS, VueJS, Vuetify, NodeJS, Sequelize, RDS, OpenStreetMap, Mapillary
• Date: 2021-02-01
• Type: Consulting

Dental health atlas of Germany

Visualise public dental health data in Germany across different years.

• Technologies: Mapbox GL JS, VueJS, Vuetify, Chart.JS
• Date: 2020-09-01
• Type: Consulting

World Wine Regions map

Interactive atlas of thousands of named wine regions around the world.

• Technologies: Mapbox GL JS, VueJS, NodeJS
• Date: 2020-08-01
• Type: Consulting

Gawler Challenge Map

Displaying hackathon submissions from dozens of teams on a single map.

• Technologies: Mapbox GL JS, VueJS, NodeJS, Tippecanoe, GDAL
• Date: 2020-07-01
• Type: Consulting

Good Karma Networks

Find your closest Good Karma Effect community group.

• Technologies: Mapbox GL JS, VueJS, Google Sheets
• Date: 2020-06-01
• Type: Pro bono

Lüneburg Heath Nature Park

Multilingual trip planning site for tourists to northern Germany

• Technologies: OpenLayers, VueJS, Wegue
• Date: 2020-05-01
• Type: Consulting

DTA Search

Helps parents of children with disabilities find school transport options.

• Technologies: VueJS, Mapbox-GL-JS, Turf
• Date: 2020-03-15
• Type: Consulting

Alternative Earth

Procedurally-generated map that looks a bit like our world

• Technologies: VueJS, Mapbox-GL-JS, Turf, Node, vector tiles, Glitch
• Date: 2020-01-01
• Type: Side project

Sports planning tool

Analysing the distribution of sports facilities with demographics for context

• Technologies: VueJS, Mapbox-GL-JS, vector tiles
• Date: July 2019
• Type: Freelance

Find My School

Lets parents see which school zones their address is within.

• Technologies: VueJS, Mapbox-GL-JS, Turf
• Date: 2019-04-15
• Type: Consulting

Risky Roads Archive

Presenting the results of a statewide motorist survey of dangerous intersections.

• Technologies: VueJS, Mapbox-GL-JS, vector tiles
• Date: March 2019
• Type: Freelance

Cherre property search

Find buildings or lots within New York City matching specific criteria.

• Technologies: React, Mapbox-GL-JS, GraphQL
• Date: 2019-02-28
• Type: Consulting

Ziggurat calculator

Compute and visualise the increase in gross floor area by amalgamating property lots.

• Technologies: VueJS, Mapbox-GL-JS, Turf
• Date: 2019-01-08
• Type: Consulting

Water Sensitive Projects

Explore planned and completed green infrastructure projects in Kunshan, China.

• Technologies: VueJS, Mapbox-GL-JS, NodeJS, uMap, Mapbox
• Date: December 2019
• Type: Freelance

What the Proj?

Helps guess the correct projection given an easting-northing pair and an approximate lat-lon.

• Technologies: VueJS, proj4
• Date: November 2018
• Type: Hobby project

Smartygrants Maps

Analyse and visualise grant data by boundaries such as LGA or Remoteness Area.

• Technologies: Mapbox-GL-JS, Java, Tippecanoe, GDAL
• Date: 2018-09-01
• Type: Paid employmnet

getlon.lat

Recommends geocoder plans based on your specific needs

• Technologies: VueJS
• Date: 2018-04-01
• Type: Paid employment turned side project.

SchoolScape

Visualisation tool for school planners, combining demographic change and school infrastructure.

• Technologies: Mapbox-GL-JS, Vector tiles (Tippecanoe), VueJS, NodeJS
• Date: February 2018
• Type: Contract

Spatial Data Package Investigation

Analysing a possible spatial specification within the Frictionless Data ecosystem

• Technologies:
• Date: February 2018
• Type: Consulting.

Mapbox2Tangram

Automatically converts a Mapbox style file to a Tangram/Mapzen scene.

• Technologies: Mapbox-GL-JS, NodeJS
• Date: October 2017
• Type: Consulting

Melbourne Parking Data Map

Real-time visualisation of on-street parking space availability and restrictions.

• Technologies: Mapbox-GL-JS, SQL
• Date: October 2017
• Type: Salaried work

Melbourne open data tour

A 3D video showcasing a dozen of Melbourne's high-value open datasets.

Video here.
Source code.

• Technologies: Mapbox-GL-JS, Socrata, JavaScript
• Date: March 2017
• Type: Salaried work.

Open Council Data Platform

Finds, acquires, merges, publishes local government open data.

• Technologies: NodeJS, Material Design Lite, Cloudant (CouchDB), Mapbox-GL-jS
• Date: 2017-01-20
• Type: Paid employment.

Larry Donovan

Meticulously referenced Wikipedia article for obscure 19^th century bridge jumper.

My article probably formed the basis of this piece in Atlas Obscura, Larry Donovan, 1880s Bridge Jumper, Lived Too Soon.

• Technologies: Words
• Date: September 2016
• Type: Side project

CSV-Geo-AU

A standard connecting open data to pre-defined statistical boundaries.

• Technologies: Words
• Date: 2016
• Type: Salaried work.

Open Council Data Toolkit

Guidance, tools and templates for local governments considering open data.

With an awesome partner, I delivered a website of tools and guidance for local councils considering publishing open data. It covers the journey from "what" and "why" to "how do I convince the management" through to specific tools for publishing data and policy templates. It built on my previous work on the Open Council Data Standards (started as a hobby project) and the Open Council Data Map, polishing them up and combining them into a more comprehensive platform.

• Technologies: Wordpress
• Date: 2015
• Type: Consulting.

SaltyMill

Automated deployment of full OpenStreetMap, PostGIS, TileMill, OSRM stack.

• Technologies: OpenStack, Salt, PostGIS, OSRM, Leaflet
• Date: 2014-15
• Type: Work and side project.

PTV Timetable API developer portal

Developer-friendly documentation and sandbox for PTV's timetable API.

PTV's timetable API was released with poorly formatted, borderline unusable documentation in Word format. I turned it into an easy to browse website using Swagger. I also implemented the rather complex API signature generation step directly into the site, lowering the barrier to entry for developers wanting to try out the API.

The portal is still online (but now out of date) at opentransportdata.org. For a time, PTV were using a version of this code as their official documentation, but (as of November 2017), no longer.

• Technologies: Swagger (Open API Initiative), Javascript
• Date: May 2015
• Type: Side project.

Open Council Data Standards

Standards for Australian local governments publishing open data.

Online at standards.opencouncildata.org.

• Technologies: Jekyll, Github
• Date: April 2014
• Type: Side project, partially funded.

OpenTrees.org

Browse the collective open tree databases of dozen of local councils.

Try it online at opentrees.org.
Full write-up here: OpenTrees.org: how to aggregate 373,000 trees from 9 open data sources.

• Technologies: Mapbox-GL-JS, PostGIS, Bash.
• Date: April 2014
• Type: Side project.

Hipster Map of Melbourne

A snarky map of cafes, bars, shopping and other cultural oddities.

Still online at hipstermelbourne.org

• Technologies: Mapbox-GL-JS
• Date: April 2014
• Type: Side project.

EMS Cycle Tours

An interactive map of a decade's worth of cycle tours around Victoria.

An interactive map of the 60+ cycle tours around Victoria that my friends and I have done over the last 10 years or so.
Try it online.

• Technologies: Mapbox-GL-JS
• Date: April 2014
• Type: Side project.

OpenCouncilData map

Live-updating map of how many open datasets published by each local government in Australia.

The map is at map.opencouncildata.org.
Source code here.

• Technologies: CartoDB, CartoCSS, Python
• Date: 2014 –
• Type: Side project, partially funded.

Multi-line strings in YAML

Over-explaining YAML's many options for long strings, on StackOverflow.

Full description here.

• Technologies: Words, YAML
• Date: February 2014
• Type: Side project.

Open Knowledge Melbourne

Co-founded an industrious collective of "open-everything" enthusiasts.

How to summarise Open Knowledge Melbourne? An evolving journey of community building, open-everything technical-exploration and a "why not" attitude. We formed the group in April 2013 after a "Data Hack" course at The Age in which we taught participants to make maps using modern cartography tools. Maia Sauren, Fiona Tweedie, Craig Butt and I were the initial "Open Knowledge ambassadors", with David Flanders instigating the group. Over the years, we ran nearly 150 events, from epic hackathons such as GovHack and HealthHack and high-profile speakers, to big social meetups and "shut up and hack nights" where anyone from government, academia, the private sector or elsewhere could cross paths and work on improving knowledge flow.

• Technologies: Everything.
• Date: 2013 – 2016
• Type: Side project.

cycletour.org

Route-planning site for cyclists, with special cartography, and customised routing engine.

• Technologies: Tilemill, PostGIS, Leaflet, OSRM, Salt
• Date: 2012 – 2017
• Type: Side project.

Mapmaking for Academics

Teaching materials for PhD students and postdocs based on TileMill and Carto.

Over the course of several years I taught around 20 mapping workshops, creating and refining material using a very hands-on methodology of "try to replicate this output". To support the workshops I spun up a number of server instances, encouraging participants to work together as a table, one per server.

The content is available at researchmaps.net.

• Technologies: TileMill, CartoDB.
• Date: 2013-15
• Type: Salaried work, side project and paid gigs.

10 Things I hate about Git

A frustrated rant about Git's command line interface that struck a nerve and went viral.

• Technologies: Words
• Date: February 2012
• Type: Side project.

Wikitext grammar

A formal grammar for Wikipedia's markup language, in ANTLR.

• Technologies: ANTLR
• Date: February 2008
• Type: Personal project