Steve Bennett blogs

2019-12-15

At FOSS4G Oceania 2019, I lamented the lack of free tools for collaboratively maintaining small datasets of locations, a common need in many community...

2018-05-15

I recently re-engineered the data processing behind OpenTrees.org. It’s a website that lets you explore the combined open tree databases of 21 local councils...

2017-08-22

17th century Mapbox-GL-JS. For my next web mapping project, we’ll use vector tiles. Great. And the data will come from OpenStreetMap. Excellent. Now...

2015-12-26

Self-doubt is awful, so this is for Future Steve: here are lots of things you did in 2015 that you can be proud of! Created opentransportdata.org: Swagger...

2015-07-02

National Map is a pretty awesome place to find geospatial open data from all levels of Australian government.  (Disclaimer: I work on it at NICTA). But...

2015-04-23

Everyone loves hackathons. And almost as much, everyone loves asking “but what happens to the projects afterwards?” There’s more than one route to follow...

2015-04-06

I try to convince government bodies, especially local councils, to publish more open data. It’s much easier when there is a concrete benefit to point...

2015-01-13

Cycletour.org is a tool for planning cycle tours in Australia, and particularly Victoria. I made it because Google Maps is virtually useless for this...

2015-01-06

Problem You want to do some visualisation magic in Tableau, but your spreadsheet looks like this: All those green columns are dependent variables: independent...

2014-09-04

As a data guru in residence, I’m helping government bodies prioritise which datasets to release as open data. Sometimes people say “No one would ever...