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Ideas

Our Ideas section is a place for everyone to submit innovative ideas for development of an app, widget or mashup that makes use of crowd-sourcing or government data. Ideas submitted should have something to do with government.

These ideas may be discussed by Directgov | innovate site users and may even be developed into working apps by the more industrious participants.

We reserve the right to edit any text submitted and will not publish ideas that are not relevant to the subject matter of this site.

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Most Recent Ideas

Voting Help

During an election, there should be a central place to see
-My constituency (boundary data)
-My ward
-The authority running the election
-How I...

Submitted 06/09/2009 - 15:16 by Terence Eden
Tags: API, election, vote
1 comments

Tool to help parents choose a school based upon real life decision criteria

Google Maps type tool which utilises data within Direct.Gov "Find a School" tool but which allows the user to select/de-select a school based upon the real life decision...

Submitted 18/08/2009 - 13:05 by Tony Barker
0 comments

google mapping those Local Authorities who have already digitised their Rights of Way infrastructure/network

seeking out the names of all those LA's who have digitised their Rights of Way network

to see if the networks that now are digitised can be combined onto a google...

Submitted 20/07/2009 - 14:53 by alistair gordon
2 comments

Most Commented on Ideas

Bicycle Friendly Routes Around London

Create an application which is a bike routes mashup showing the easiest cycle routes around London, where easiest is defined as safest/ quietest or those streets with...

Submitted 06/07/2009 - 13:29 by dawa riley
3 comments

Recycle tool

A user enters a product or material and his/her postcode, and is returned with places where this material can be recycled.

[This was submitted by James Love...

Submitted 06/07/2009 - 14:26 by Brian Hoadley
2 comments

A website that tells you if a item is recyclable.

One of the biggest barriers that i've found to recycling more is that when I go to put something in the bin, i'm asking myself, "Could I recycle this?" but because i'm...

Submitted 16/07/2009 - 13:10 by Nathan Massey
Tags: google, mobile, recycling, search, waste
2 comments