Posted by
Russell McOrmond-2 on
Jan 26, 2006; 9:56pm
URL: http://civicaccess.416.s1.nabble.com/Canadian-federal-information-keyed-on-Electoral-District-ID-EDID-tp188.html
Greetings,
I'm the webmaster for digital-copyright.ca , and I also have other
clients (Example:
http://makepovertyhistory.ca ) which makes access to
federal information such as the postal code database (noted at:
http://www.digital-copyright.ca/node/1607 ) and contact information for
candidates (during the election) and MPs (between elections).
Soon after the election I took the page at
http://www.parl.gc.ca/information/about/people/house/mpscur.asp?Language=E
and created a table of information by adding the electoral district ID
number (cutting-and-pasting from a different page).
I can now loop through the links and do a screen scrape to get email
addresses as these pages include the "contact information" link. Those
returning to parliament already have this information, and soon we'll
see the information for the newly elected MPs as well.
What I'm wondering is if there are people who would like to
collaborate on this type of thing, avoiding duplications of effort.
What I'm looking for is to have a place to put information that is keyed
to the electoral district ID. I know of someone else who is working
with SierraClub.ca who has went through and done the cutting-and-pasting
of the MP names into separate firstname and lastname fields, which may
also be useful to people.
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