Posted by
Tracey P. Lauriault-2 on
Jan 26, 2006; 10:59pm
URL: http://civicaccess.416.s1.nabble.com/Canadian-federal-information-keyed-on-Electoral-District-ID-EDID-tp188p189.html
Hi Russell;
Just to be sure that I understand, you are looking for people to
collaboratively add election attribute data into a spreadsheet/table
that you have created from the house page url below, a home for it so
that it can be shared, maybe merging the data from the sierra club file,
and a way to view it that is friendly & accessible?
If so, that would be very valuable as it could also be joined to the
electoral boundary files, mapped and analyzed, among other many
interesting uses.
Tracey
Russell McOrmond wrote:
> 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.
>
>
>