The gc20.ca services, including Mobile GEDS, the mobile.gc20.ca portal and and the i.gc20.ca URL Shortener are back online. are back online. Sorry for the disruption today.
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The gc20.ca services, including Mobile GEDS, the mobile.gc20.ca portal and and the i.gc20.ca URL Shortener are back online. are back online. Sorry for the disruption today.
Hi All, The gc20.ca domain, which hosts several handy tools including the Mobile GEDS project and the i.gc20.ca URL Shortener project, is currently experiencing technical difficulties. Surpass Hosting, who’s servers hold these wonderful goodies, has experienced problems during a scheduled maintenance of their data center this morning. They are currently working on resolving the issue. [...]
I was just discussing this week with a few colleagues my general disappointment in “low-value” datasets that our local government in Ottawa have been releasing as part of their open data catalogue. It contains, for the most part, static datasets. (Some of the transportation data that is now coming out is a welcome addition.) I [...]
One of today’s most popular topics in my Twitter feed was the news that the Federal Court of Canada had come to a ruling on the case of Donna Jodhan vs. Attorney General of Canada. Ms. Jodhan was suing the Government of Canada because she was unable to apply for job online through a Service [...]
I just watched a great video by David Eaves, discussing how the implementation of Open Data in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada has already fostered the creation of applications that are making an impact on the city. If you’re wondering why your city should support Open Data, watch this video.
Mobile GEDS has been running for a while now, so I thought I’d take a look at its usage stats. The first query was just to see what language the site was being queried in. More interesting is the usage by device/browser. For the sake of this graph, I grouped all the Blackberry models together, [...]
The Mobile GEDS application now has a new home. Point your favourite mobile device to: http://geds.gc20.ca/ Enjoy!
Happy St. Patrick’s Day Everyone! As some of you may know, I’ve been working on a mobile-friendly version of the Government Electronic Directory Service (GEDS) as a little side project. This application parses the results of the Government of Canada’s online phone book into a format that is easier to use on mobile devices like [...]
I read a headline this afternoon in the Ottawa Citizen that really rubbed me the wrong way: “Heritage minister criticizes lack of French in Olympic opening ceremony“. The article quotes Heritage Minister James Moore as saying the ceremonies should have been “a better representation of our bicultural past and the reality today”. This is the [...]
My views on the recently imposed travel restrictions on flights bound for the United States.