Challenge Resources
These pages were developed for EPA’s Apps for the Environment Challenge, which was held in the summer of 2011. Information listed on these pages may no longer be current. To access feature EPA Web services, view sample code, and find other developer resources, visit EPA’s Developer Central. To search EPA’s collection of data sources, visit DataFinder.
- Data Webinars - See six webinars about EPA’s data systems. Each one is half an hour long and the data owners describes formats, vocabulary, and data access methods.
- Data Resources – A list of resources for accessing federal government data and Web services.
- Data Sets – A subset of EPA's data sets which are made available in developer friendly formats.
- Services – A sample of Web services for accessing and using EPA data.
- Ideas for Apps – A list of identified user needs that could potentially be addressed by apps that use EPA data.
- Existing Apps – A sample of existing environmental apps that use EPA data.
Hold a code-a-thon!
You can hold a code-a-thon with a group of developers to make prototypes of apps in a half day or full day. Contact us or call us at 202-566-1686 and we can talk about how to set one up, promote it, and make it a success!
- Code-a-thon Toolkit: This Toolkit describes what you need to make a code-a-thon happen. (14pp, 393KB About PDF)
- Random Hacks of Kindness
This presentation provides details about how Random Hacks of Kindness holds hackathons to "hack on real-world problems relating to natural disaster risk and response. (25pp, 800KB About PDF)
- Data Resources
- Data Sets
- Services
- Ideas for Apps
- Existing Apps
- Apps for the Environment
- Challenge.gov site
Challenge Resources
-
Search EPA's Environmental Datasets Gateway
Note: You can use Lucene search text syntax for queries in EDG.
About the EDG