California, US: ESRI announced the result of Mashup Challenge 2010. Dave Bouwman, CTO and lead software architect at DTSAgile of Fort Collins, Colorado, won the top prize of USD 10,000 with Executive Compensation Mashup, which compares top US executive salaries with the total income for selected counties in the United States.
The geodeveloper community’s strong response to the ESRI 2010 Mashup Challenge created a quandary for the jury. “I was really impressed with the creativity and quality of all the applications that were submitted. It was difficult for us to choose the top four entries. This is a testimony to the immense possibilities afforded by the new ESRI Web APIs and the freely available ArcGIS Online content, said says Michael Gould, ESRI’s director of education for industry solutions.
The guidelines for the challenge were to build a mashup using ESRI’s ArcGIS Online content and Web APIs, publish the related URL and post a video describing the application on YouTube.
Daniel Bradshaw, owner of DB MediaStudio, Springville, Utah, won second prize and USD 5,000 with Fluttr: The Human Story in Realtime, a mashup that automatically populates an international map with live feeds from Twitter, Flickr and YouTube.
Mark Laudon, of LaudonTech in Surrey, Canada, took the third prize and USD 2,500 for Floor Plan Mapping, an interactive building floor plan with employee search capabilities including a brief employee biography.
Ernesto Giron, GIS senior analyst for the International Centre for Tropical Agriculture in Cali, Colombia, won fourth prize and USD 2,500 for Drought Timing for Agronomic Screening. This interactive international soil map indicates soil type and quality in a specified area and its agricultural potential with respect to changes in climate.
Source: ESRI
