After a long but exciting day, six finalists have been awarded a slice of £150,000 (plus £10,000 for the best use of OS OpenData) in seed funding to help bring their transport based ideas to life.

Meeting the finalists

And the winners are…

• Mission:Explore have been awarded £36,500 to help implement their idea to encourage children and their families to get cycling by inviting them to seek out and complete irreverent missions located across the National Cycle Network.
• My PTP, which stands for Personal Transport Planner, also took home a cheque for £36,500 to help build their vision of a journey planner that enables users to make informed travel choices in real-time
• CycleStreets got a grant of £27,000 to help them built their cycling advocacy toolkit to help groups across the country campaign for better cycling facilities.
• My Society won £27,000 to implement the mobile element of their FixMyTransport initiative, looking to encourage us all to become micro-activists when we find problems with the transport network.
• The @ccessAdvisR team were awarded £27,000 for their disabled access route planner to help take the stress out of journeys for travellers with limited mobility.
• And finally, £6,000 was presented to the London Cycle Map Campaign for their idea of creating a colour coded Tube style map of the Capital’s cycling network.

Congratulations to all the winners, but also to each of the finalists, all of whom presented their ideas with passion and enthusiasm. Now comes the hard work of bring those idea to fruition and you’ll be able to follow their progress on here on the blog and over on the GeoVation site.

Tom Steinberg pitching FixMyTransport

It’s been a great day, thoroughly enjoyable, but most importantly I think GeoVation is going to help get some great geography based ideas off the ground that address real problems experienced by real people.

So what do you think of our winners? Did the judges make the right choices? And if you took part in GeoVation in some way, do let us know what you think of how it was run – your feedback will help us design the next challenge.

In the meantime, happy GeoVating!

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   7, May, 2011 at 9:43 am

   [...] The innovation competition, which awards cash grants to do something useful with OS data announced the most recent winners this week – with a couple of wins for cycling related projects. Check out the details [...]

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