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The best applications on data.gov.uk
The best applications on data.gov.uk
Want to find out whether you're living on an extinct volcano or remember to wake up when you reach your stop on the train? Yes, there's an app for that.
All of the following apps are available through data.gov.uk, the site that provides the public with access to thousands of datasets collected by government.
silicon.com took a look at some of the ways that the public has found to make dry-as-dust public stats into useful and engaging information.
Designed for the Apple iPhone, the My Train Stop App takes advantage of the phone's GPS to track where the user is on a train journey and sound an alarm when they're near their destination.
The app uses information on the full list of railway stations in the UK, excluding Northern Ireland, which has been taken from the National Public Transport Access Nodes dataset.
Caption by: Nick Heath
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