The first Omsk geo-hakaton

Hello, Habr!

We know that on Habré - the maximum concentration of technical specialists, from beginners to pros. Of course, IT is a field where creative people work, because even for laying a network cable a non-standard approach is needed (let us remember the cable laying feeder ). Well, when creating a service or a desktop program, you need fresh thoughts, creativity in its purest form.
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So, our company would like to invite everyone to participate in the event, which we called the geo-hakaton, a two-stage competition to create the best service or application (in general, any software product) to use a specific data set.

We will create all this in the form of a task.

So, given: a map of the city ​​of Omsk , tracks of taxi drivers, the history (anonymous) of taxi orders.

You need to get: a service or application that uses this data, giving a useful result. What result? There are no restrictions, you have all the cards in hand. Free creativity as it is.

The event itself consists of two stages:

1. Contest of ideas, where you can offer any, the most daring ideas to solve the problem.

Of course, the winner of the competition receives a prize. This is an iPad Mini Retina 64GB for the author of the best idea, and certificates for 1000 rubles for trips to the taxi companies of partner companies for the contestants (yes, for all participants).

2. Geo-hakaton, where you have to create a product that implements your bold idea. :)

Here the prize is even more interesting. The winner receives an IPhone 5S 64GB, and the rest of the hackathon receives certificates for 1000 rubles for trips to the taxi companies of partner companies.

As you can see, with active work, you can immediately get 2000 rubles for trips to a taxi, plus a couple of functional gadgets. The farm does not hurt, right? :)

The terms of participation:

• The competition is free;
• Registration is required for participation;
• The number of places is limited, so it is worth registering now.

Dates:

• Ideas competition - May 24, 11 ^am (registration will start at 10 ^am )
• geo-hackathon - May 31, June 1 11 ⁰⁰

Venue: IT Loft , Russia, Omsk, ul. Training, 83, of. 212.

We are waiting for you and your ideas, we want to quickly hand over the iPad and iPhone to the good hands of a creative person.

UPD2

So, the first stage took place

Recall that at this stage, the participants of the geo-hackathon should have proposed ideas on the use of geo-data provided by the organizers.

Participation in the competition of ideas geo-hakaton took part in 16 teams, 41 participants.
A lot of ideas were proposed, and all of them were appreciated by the jury.

Separately, teams and participants were noted:

• Vyacheslav Vinogradov (Geo-quests and the EST bonus system);
• Siberian Cats (Economically calculated individual fare for each taxi driver based on statistics and geo-data);
• CAT_IN_THE_DARK_WOOD (Automated system for collecting information about traffic rules);
• Angry beards (Predictions taxi orders based on data from social networks);
• Dream (geo-contextual advertising);
• Evgeny Tarasenko (Integration of the driver and client taxi applications with the bus station, airport, railway);
• Green Light (Forecasting taxi orders by city districts);

The first place was taken by the team "Dream". As announced, the team received a prize - iPad mini Retina 64GB. In addition, all participants received certificates for 1000 rubles for trips to the taxi ECT.

UPD:

Here are the data that will be provided to the participants of the contest of ideas and geohacathone.

Map and transport network of Omsk. One file in SpatiaLite format, containing: addresses of houses, contours of houses, contours of districts of the city and villages of the region, the transport network of Omsk. Using this file, directly using SpatiaLite (or using your own algorithms) you can: perform direct geocoding (find the coordinates of a house by address), reverse geocoding (find the address by coordinates), build routes.

The map and transport network were carefully drawn and prepared by the cartographic department of EST Technologies. This is what we do for all cities where we work, because the address base and the transport network are very important for the functioning of taxi services.

SpatiaLite is a SQLite extension that adds geographic data types, corresponding indices and operations.

Tracks move taxi in Omsk in 2013. A lot of files in GPX 1.1 format. Tracks include speed, direction of travel (as accurate as possible on smartphones), and a driver ID. By identifier tracks can be compared with taxi orders. The tracks were recorded by the “ECT: Driver” application during the order execution. Due to the nature of data collection, each track is limited to a minute interval: there are 60 second reports in each track, and there are several tracks per order.

GPX is the most universal format for presenting GPS tracks. They can even be displayed, for example, in Google Earth.

The history of real taxi orders in Omsk for 2013. Orders are uploaded to one SQLite file. For each order there are: driver ID, date and time of the beginning and completion of the order, address and geographical coordinates of the taxi address (beginning of the route) and destination (end of the route), distance traveled.

Read / view / download:
SpatiaLite: www.gaia-gis.it/gaia-sins
GPX: www.topografix.com/gpx.asp
SQLite: www.sqlite.org
QGIS: www.qgis.org - to visualize data from SpatiaLite