By Anthony Wallace

This year’s GovHack winners were this week announced at the 2016 GovHack Red Carpet Awards held in Adelaide on Saturday 22 October. GovHack is a three day ‘hackathon’ that sees teams from across Australia and New Zealand compete to develop new applications using open government data. The volunteer-run event is sponsored by technology companies, several government departments and a range of high-visibility start-ups and innovators.

Geoscience Australia together with PSMA Australia co-sponsored the Major GovHack prize for the best ‘No Boundaries Data Hack’, which aims to explore government data from multiple states and territories to unlock the value of spatial data.

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This story first appeared in Spatial Source.