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Re: Canadian federal information keyed on Electoral District ID (EDID)

Posted by Cory Horner on Jan 27, 2006; 8:51am
URL: http://civicaccess.416.s1.nabble.com/Canadian-federal-information-keyed-on-Electoral-District-ID-EDID-tp188p193.html

Russell McOrmond wrote:

>   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.
>  
>
Glad to see this being followed up on; count me in.  I'd love to see
some standards developed so we can all integrate our data easily, such
as EDIDs -- and some sort of unique identifier for each MP, etc, as well.

I'll throw the MP website list in the mix too... I could add the EDID to
my index and offer the data as a little service for you guys to synch with.

Cheers,
Cory.