New apps to provide NSW Government information

Software developers will be given the opportunity to turn NSW Government information on public transport, energy use and the environment into apps for community use.

The new software applications will be created by developers who attend the ‘apps4nsw Development Day’ on Saturday 19 February at the Powerhouse Museum in Ultimo.

NSW Chief Scientist and Scientific Engineer Professor Mary O’Kane said bringing together developers, the community and public sector staff helps create better applications using NSW Government data.

NSW Government agencies including Transport NSW, Energy Australia, the RTA and the Department of Environment, Climate Change and Water have provided data for the event.

“Data to improve public transport use, increase awareness of endangered species and highlight energy consumption to save power have been made available to developers,” Professor O’Kane said.

“One set of data that could improve the way we use public transport is real-time locations for Sydney’s Metrobus services including arrival times at bus stops based on data received from on-board global positioning systems (GPS).

“Another data set supplied by Energy Australia demnstrates energy consumption and contains total and average electricity use by local government area.”

New software applications will add to an increasing range of NSW Government applications produced through the apps4nsw competition held last year and by NSW agencies.