Show Us A Better Way offers £20,000 for developing prototypes
The (British) government’s Show Us A Better Way competition has added another £20,000 string to its bow: this time, the prize – in addition to the original one – is available for prototypes of ideas that have been made on the site.
It offers a number of sites which will help with mashups, and links to useful code resources. Well worth investigating, since you don’t have to be one of the people with the ideas in order to benefit greatly from them.
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August 7th, 2008 at 11:30 am
Does this mean that there are two £20,000 awards now, or have they redefined exactly what it is they will give the award for?
August 11th, 2008 at 3:53 pm
The article says that “To help with the task, the government is opening up gigabytes of information from a variety of sources.
This includes mapping information from the Ordnance Survey…”
Does anyone know what OS data is being opened up?
August 22nd, 2008 at 8:09 pm
Hi
There are now two prize funds. One for ideas and one for prototypes.
The OS data that is in the competition is the Openspace API.
Hope that helps
Richard
August 24th, 2008 at 8:34 pm
@Robin: I think that it’s the OS’s OpenSpace API, which lets you embed OS maps on websites rather like Google. It’s limited at present, though perhaps the competition will point a way for OS to enlarge it.