By Mike Burns & James Kennon
Our application, Accessible Brisbane, addresses the fundamental shortcomings of the Access Brisbane database (which, ironically, is its ‘accessibility’). We took the data in the Access Brisbane database, and added a spatial dimension to that data. Then the Accessible Brisbane app puts it in context by giving the user information about accessible venues nearby. Accessible Brisbane also allows the user to quickly and easily contribute new information to the community. Through the Facebook connection, users are motivated to contribute, which addresses the other shortcoming of the Access Brisbane database (ie, the lack of up-to-date data).
The dataset we used was the Access Brisbane database, which we mashed with data from the Google Places API using some matching algorithms that we wrote.
Accessible Brisbane map