From the webpage:
New York City is challenging software developers to create apps that use city data to make NYC better.
There are three completed contests (one just ended) that resulted in very useful applications.
NYC BigApps 3.0 resulted in:
NYC Facets: Best Overall Application – Grand Prize – Explores and visualizes more than 1 million facts about New York City.
Work+: Best Overall Application – Second – Prices – Working from home not working for you? Discover new places to get things done.
Funday Genie: Investor’s Choice Application – The Funday Genie is an application for planning a free day. Our unique scheduling and best route algorithm creates a smart personalized day-itinerary of things to do, including events, attractions, restaurants, shopping, and more, based on the user’s preferences. Everyday can be a Funday.
among others.
Quick question: How would you interchange information between any two of these apps? Or if you like, any other two apps in this or prior contests?
Second question: How would you integrate additional information into any of these apps, prepared for use by another application?
Topic maps can:
- collate information for display.
- power re-usable and extensible mappings of data into other formats.
- augment data for applications that lack merging semantics.
Where is your data today and where would you like for it to be tomorrow?