List of innovations

From IdeasInTransit

Here are the User Innovations that we have found so far that meet the criteria of our project.

Contents 1 User Innovations 1.1 GeoVation 2011 winners 2 Other Innovations 3 Innovation Enablers

User Innovations

• A Greener Festival Helping music and arts events adopt environmentally efficient practices
• Alt Fuel Prices Finding cheaper 'Alternative' fuel stations in the USA
• Avego Shared Transport Ride sharing using iPhone
• Bike Route Toaster an online, cycle route creating application.
• Bikely Cycle route sharing using Google Maps
• Bikemap.net Cycle routes using Google Maps and OpenStreetMap basemaps
• Bikewise a Google Maps mashup for bicyclists to record crashes, hazards and bicycle theft.
• Bristolstreets.co.uk Cycling, bus and other local information for the Bristol area using Google Maps.
• Cambridge cycle journey planner Collaborative mapping and automatic planning of cycle routes
• Camden Cycling Campaign maps Collaborative mapping of cycle routes and resources in London
• Car Clubs Promoting car clubs in the UK
• Car Free Walks User suggested walks that can be done without a car
• Carbon Hero Device to estimate personal carbon footprint
• Carlberry A site that shows the transport connections that settlements have with each other.
• Crisis Mappers net A site that promotes co-ordination and effective use of apps in crisis zone
• Chiki.co.uk (train tracker) allowing commuters to make better decisions regarding when to travel + reminders for claiming delays
• Chris's British Road Directory (CBRD) "All manner of information on the roads of mainland Britain".
• City Car Club A car club operator
• Commute Map Map showing commute time, distance and location for US zip codes.
• Courier exchange Maximising loads for couriers - liftshare for parcels!
• Crashstat Showing accident statistics for New York overlaid on Google Maps
• Cyclopath Opensource cycle journey planner weighted by user road ratings.
• Cycle Hire Widget for Android A real-time app which includes locations and status of Barclays' London Bike hire points.
• CycleStreets A UK wide cycle journey planner using OpenStreetMap data from the creators of Cambridge cycle journey planner
• Delay-Repay.com Making it easier to claim against train operators for late train
• DHL Packstation un-manned depots for couriers to leave and collect parcels
• Digital Urban A blog from UCL about geospatial innovations for urban areas
• DIYcity Creating tools for making their cities work better with web technologies
• Dopplr For sharing travel itineraries
• Dual Maps Creating combined Google Maps, Google Street View and Microsoft Virtual Earth maps with embeddable control
• ecoescape Sustainable and eco-friendly travel and holidays in the UK and Ireland
• ecorio Andriod app designed to reduce one's carbon footprint
• Emotion map A map of an area overlaid with feeling and emotions
• Estately property searching by distance from public transport routes
• eWorld Traffic incident management software
• FillThatHole Pot hole reporting system by CTC
• Flickr : Bad parking A web site to report poor parking
• Flickr : National Cycle Network Photos taken on or from the UK national cycle routes
• FlightRadar24 Tracks flights and maps their routes.
• Freemap Walking maps based on OpenStreetMap
• Freewheelers A ride-sharing site
• Geluidsnet Democratising aircraft noise measurement
• Geograph over 1 million photos of geographic features in th UK available for free
• Geonames A worldwide creative commons database of places and their names
• GPicSync An open source geocoder.
• Gosmore Open-source map rendering a trip planning application for mobile devices and PCs using OpenStreetMap data
• Graphserver Isochrone maps for multi-modal transport
• Green Map Mapping showing 'green' aspects to a town or area
• GreenMeter iPhone app that helps save fuel when driving.
• GTFS Data Exchange A repository of public transport data for developers
• GO_Sync A java app for transport authorities to link GTFS to OSM
• Headway wiki A vigorous wiki detailing 3rd party public transport information sites and software
• Home brew street view camera how to make a camera bundle to take panoramic images
• I Pay Road Tax.com a site that informs people about non-existent "road tax"
• Integrated Bus Route Maps What Bus seeks to have intuitive maps created for large cities and so created the Integrated Bus Routes Maps app, which currently only has data for London.
• JOSM An open-source off-line editor developed for OpenStreetMap
• Keep Right data consistency checks for OpenStreetMap
• Life Cycle Uk Cycle training
• Liftshare Liftshare online
• LightLane Personal nighttime laser bike lane
• Livable Streets Network Promoting more sustainable urban environments
• LiveBus A website that takes real time bus data from the UK and maps it.
• Loco2 Low carbon travel adventures
• London Bus, Tube & Rail Journey Planner iPhone app providing London transport journey planning
• Low fly zone promoting surface transport
• Map Channels A website that provides editable, embeddable maps for websites.
• MapMe A social mapping site which allows everyone from travelers to special interest groups to create and contribute locations
• Mapnik Map rendering software
• MapOSMaticFreeware applcation and website that create images and .pdfs from OSM data
• MapTube sharing and creating maps with the GMapCreator software
• Mapumental helps users locate where to live based on public transport journey times, house prices and 'scenicness'
• Marine Traffic A site that tracks and maps ships by their legally required Automated Identification Systems.
• Mixed Reality Architecture A tool for creative, ad-hoc working for distributed teams
• MTVan.com Maximising loads for couriers - liftshare for parcels!
• Mukuru.com Web ordering of fuel for delivery in Zimbabwe
• MyBikelane Combating vehicle parking in cycle lanes
• My Commute Sucks aggregating complaints about the state of transportation infrastructure in the United States
• MyPolice Site that puts communities in contact with their police services
• MySociety Promoting democracy through the internet
• MyTTC A community public transport journey planner for Toronto
• Nationwide Taxi Link A taxi brokering company, active from 2004 to March 2007
• Navit Routing engine using OpenStreetMap data
• New York Streets Renaissance Promoting non-car solutions to New York's transport problems
• NOVAM A visualiser for OpenStreetMap bus data.
• NPE Maps Out-of-copyright OS Maps online
• OffMaps An IPhone application that allows users to download and then use OpenStreetMap maps when offline
• Okemoko Locations A location and map sharing application for the openmoko open-source mobile phone software stack using OpenStreetMap data
• On New York Turf User generated maps for stations on New York's subway system
• Open aerial map A website for registering free aerial photography
• Open guides User-generated tourism information
• Open Layers Mapping front end for web browsers
• OpenFlights a tool that lets users map and share flights around the world, search and filter them and calculate statistics automatically
• OpenPhotoVR Virtual reality navigation using on-line photographs
• OpenRouteService A free routing service using OpenStreetMap data
• OpenStreetBrowser A way of selecting different information to view from
• OpenStreetBugs Comments on data quality issues in OpenStreetMap data
• OpenStreetMap Open source mapping data
• OpenStreetPhoto A project to collect CCBYSA aerial photography using Unmanned aerial MicroKopters
• OpenStreetView Open-source panoramas using OpenStreetMap to display location.
• Öpnvkarte Bus maps for Europe based on OpenStreetMap data
• Oscar An open-source vehicle design project
• OSM Cycle Map Cycle routes based on OpenStreetMap
• OSM UK Rail network map A map of UK railways derived from OpenStreetMap data
• Parcel Pickup 'Always at home' parcel delivery address for internet shoppers
• PARK(ing) Subversive takeover of metered parking bays
• People's Map A mapping source from GetMapping with user generated content
• pgRouting An open source routing extension for the Postgres database
• PickupPal Drivers and passengers connecting on-line
• Potlatch An on-line open-source editor used by the OpenStreetMap project
• RadarVirtuel A real-time map of aeroplane positions
• Real Time Rome Density mapping of the location of mobile phones as congestion indicator
• RegionalTraffic A UK site overlaying BBC Backstage information and other data over Google Maps
• Ride the City cycle routing in New York and Chicago using Cloud Made tiles, pgRouting and OpenStreetMap data
• Riversimple Open Source vehicle designs for 2-seater hydrogen car
• Routino A UK route planner using OpenStreetMap data with some clever route optimisation features
• Road Injuries A website that shows the location of road injury data
• routeRANK A Europe wide route planning tool including rail, road and air options
• Rusty Car Pool Low cost car club
• Skobbler An OpenStreetMap based free routing app
• School-run.org Sister site of Liftshare dedicated to the school run
• Slugging Informal ride sharing for 2+ lanes in USA
• Snowmageddon An Ushahidi powered tool for finding and lending aid in New York to cope with the snow.
• Society for All British Road Enthusiasts (SABRE) A large on-line database of user contributed data about UK roads
• Stamp Stanley Incentive for children to walk to and from school
• Streetvi combining Google Maps Street View and Microsoft Virtual Earth with geocoded photo's, video and Wikipedia articles.
• The Man in Seat Sixty-One Promoting surface tourism
• Tile Drawer Create instances of OpenStreetMap data on an Amazon virtual server.
• TrainDelays.co.uk A registry of delayed trains and quick on-line claiming mechanism
• Traintimes Live Map Live train location map
• Transportation Alternatives Promoting Cycling, Walking and Public transport in New York
• Travel Buddies Sharing travel schedules using Facebook
• Traveline South & East An integrated transport scheduler for the South, South East and East regions of the UK.
• Traveling salesman Open source 'traveling salesman' software using OpenStreetMap data
• Travelfootprint Carbon footprint calculations for travel modes
• Trikidoo Purpose designed trike for carrying small children and luggage
• Tripbot Low impact tourist travel
• TripIt To organize and share your travel plans - available from LinkedIn
• UK Snow Mapping tweets of snowfall in the UK.
• UMapper An on-line application allows you to draw on, and add pins to maps as well as make games out of them.
• Urban Repair Squad 'Paint your own cycle lane' real-world action, online photos
• Ushahidi A platform to collect and visualise information, with a focus on humanitarian issues.
• Walking Papers Enables printing of, and drawing on of, OSM maps and then scanning them back in to provide new OSM data.
• Walkit.com Providing suggested walking routes in various cities in the UK
• Wandermap.net Walking and hiking routes using Google Maps and OpenStreetMap basemaps
• Warper Rectifies images and maps against a map
• Warrington Cycle Campaign Naming and shaming councils for poor infrastructure
• Wayfaring Personalised mapping
• Weeels Social transit, NYC mobile cab-hailing and sharing
• Where2guv UK wide on-line taxi booking
• WhizzGo A Car Club operator
• WikiMapia Creating a wordwide gazeteer and points of interest database
• Wikinews A user-generated news service
• WikiSPEEDia A crowd-sourced geographic database of speed limits
• Wikitravel Press Printed tourist guides using user-generated content
• Wombat car club A car club operator
• YourNavigation trip planing by car, bike and on foot using OpenStreetMap data
• YourParkingSpace Brokering private residential driveways
• Zipcar A car club operator

GeoVation 2011 winners

• Mission:Explore - QR codes and SMS numbers scattered across the country, involved in missions for people to complete.
• MyPTP - Journey Planner
• Crowd-sourced cycling solutions - A "wizard" for creating cycling advocacy campaigns, scans and alerts of relevant consultations among other things.
• FixMyTransport - Report problems with public transport and have them sent to the relevant authority.
• @ccessAdvisR - Journey planner for people with limited mobility
• London Cycle Map - Colour coded cycle map for London

Other Innovations

• 234car An on-line ridesharing service
• AA Traffic News Displaying UK traffic news from the AA
• Abogo Calculates average transport costs for US residences depending on location.
• Airport Transfer Service A taxi sharing services focusing on airport-resort trips
• Bikehike.co.uk Sharing and planning bike rides using OS Openspace
• Bike Radar A dynamic website for cyclists with large set of user contirbuted cycle routes
• Call a bike Cycle rental in various German cities
• Car Share Cornwall Promoting ride-sharing in Cornwall based on liftshare
• Carpool by Zimride Ride-sharing application for Facebook/myspace etc
• Carticipate Ride share using an iPhone
• Chromaroma Transport gaming and data collection in London
• City Car A radical design of urban car from MIT
• City-Go-Round A collection of transit applications for all platforms.
• ClearThatTrail Right of way obstruction reporting system by CTC
• Cloud Made A commercial spin-out from OpenStreetMap
• Cloud Made Style editor A Cloud Made application allowing manipulation of map styles
• Community Map Esri's Community Map, collective authoritative data
• Don't Travel Empty A site that combines coach schedules to have them filled on otherwise empty return journeys.
• DriveGain a fuel efficiency mobile app
• Eileo A company that sells the tools needed to set up a car share.
• FixMyStreet A third-party website to report problems with streets
• Glastonbury Festival Travel Organising coach travel to the glastonbury festival
• Goloco Promoting low-CO2 methods of travel
• Go-Gas.com Calculator for fuel consumption and cost for journeys.
• Google Latitude Displays users locations on a Google Maps map.
• Google MapMaker Allowing users to enter map data into Google Maps
• Google Maps Google's online map
• Google transit A public transport journey planner from Google
• iMapWeather World-wide weather map, with extra features over the USA.
• Imovelondon A TfL site promoting sustainable travel in London
• InfoMapper ViewFinder Promoting sustainable travel to school
• Jagonari cycles Cycling training in East London
• Mapping the Storm Clean-up WNYC collated data on plowed streets in New York during the snow storm
• Mapzen An OpenStreetMap mapping tool and an iPhone data collection app.
• London Bus An iPhone app providing London travel routes, travel info and augmented realty POI's
• Metro quest Planning software for urban areas with community engagement
• NextBuses iPhone app with real time bus capabilities, uses the Traveline service of the same name.
• Nosey Parker Finds parking spaces in the UK
• OS Openspace The Application Programming Interface making detailed Ordnance Survey mapping available to developers free of charge
• OV-fiets Short term cycle hire in Holland
• OYBike.com Short term cycling hire
• Park at my house Brokering private residential driveways
• Parkopedia An "encyclopaedia for parking spaces"
• People Movers Collection of technology approaches to moving people in a city.
• Piece by piece A Guardian initiative to bring together campaigns against development and to protect natural habitats.
• PublicEarth Crowd-sourced mapping of points of interest.
• Quake-Catcher Network Crowd sourcing earthquake detection and seismic readings.
• Quno Compare prices and buy rail tickets online.
• Ratemystreet Rate streets arund the world.
• Resejämföraren Multi-modal routing on OSM in the Øresund region.
• Ride-On Transportation
• Schmap Online travel guides and social apps.
• Shadow Cities Location based mobile game
• Stadium Parking Find parking places when attending sport events.
• Street Bump Android app to detect damaged roads used by Boston City, US.
• Streetcar A car club using mobile technology.
• Taxi Cab Fare Calculator Calculates taxi fares for a given journey.
• Texxi Text-based service enabling taxi-share for e.g. nightclubs
• Ticket Machine in your Pocket a mobile train ticketing system from Masabi.
• Traffic4England Real time traffic information application for Google Android
• UK House Prices A mash up of house price averages, maps and searches on-line estate agent.
• Velo-v Cycle sharing system
• Walk score A walkability score by postcode based on local amenities
• WSPGroup Public Transport Map

Innovation Enablers

• BarCamp An international unconference network.
• Be2Camp UK events for people interested in how the latest web applications can help build a better, more sustainable built environment
• Geomob London based meet-ups for techies interested in GeoMobile technologies.
• GeoVation Competitions to allocate funding to Geographical ideas and innovations.
• Innovators Council Thrice annual meetings to find innovations to develop on a given theme.
• Rewired State Meet-ups where hackers put together solutions for government problems for the betterment of all.
• Seedcamp Regular events which award monetary prizes and three months of support for innovators.
• Social Innovation Camp Meet-ups between software programs and designers and innovators.
• HMGs Social Venture Capital Fund A government initiative to create useful tools for the public with government data.
• Transit Camp 'Barcamps' for transport where IT users gather to plan future transport systems for a particular area
• WhereCamp Meet ups with a predisposition towards forming gemobile business ideas.