Developed as part of GovHack Perth 2013 (July 5 - July 7).
by Team Flying Lemur
- Todd Owen
- Nathan Hankinson
- Jack Golding
A zoomable map of Perth, with a time-slider ranging from the first census in 1911 to the current day. Watch the growth of Perth over the past 100 years, or focus on your community and see how many people lived there in your grandmother's day.
Evolution of Perth is built on the Google Maps API, with local government boundaries and historical demographics from the Australian Bureau of Statistics. Within the time limit imposed by the GovHack event, we were able to present population density at the level of local government area. In the future there is potential to "mine" the archives of the State Records Office and the State Library, and bring to life population and land use data at the suburb or even street level.
License: GNU General Public License v3