On March 4th, I participated in Open Data BC’s Open Data Day hackathon. My team (Access360) built a map interface to display points of interest for those with accessibility issues. We mined open datasets from the City of Vancouver to find information on accessible parking spaces and accessible public washrooms (did you know there are only 16 such washrooms in the whole of Vancouver?!). We used API’s from Yelp and TransLink to gather data on accessible venues and transit stops in the City of Vancouver. We ended up winning first place in the Wildcard category (with a $500 prize) as well as the Protohack Challenge, winning us a team pass to Protohack. I had an awesome day learning how to process KML files and teaching my team members Python. You can find our project on our Github page.