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Re-uses of this dataset

• Geonear by Ben Nolan http://www.geonear.com/

  My site uses the wellington city council suburb boundaries, the zenbu creative commons places data, and the freely licensed OpenStreetMap data to create a shared space where people in Wellington can talk about issues that are important to them. The goal is to create a site that is more than just a 'rate and review restaurants' site, but encourages users to talk and share information about public spaces, for example to allow discussion around ideas like "The busses on manners mall are going too fast". To that end, we create seperate pages for parks, like Glover park and Waitangi park, and page for people to talk about streets and buildings. I've done this because I think the public spaces in cities are often under-represented in the online representation of that city. The parks are just as important as the bars. Some of the original things I've done are creating a 'google street view navigator', so you can click your way down cuba street by navigating from one place to the next visually. I've used the Wellington City Council suburb data so that I can create a hierachy of places, starting at Wellington, then suburb, then street, then place. I also allow users to create places inside places, so for example you might have 'Level 3' at the 'Wellington Library', or 'Corner table' at 'Hashigo Zake'. I've also adapted ideas from popular forum software and the trademe search filters so that users can pick up and start to use Geonear without learning a new set of paradigms.