Re: link to MP from ISF pages

Posted by Cory Horner on Feb 01, 2006; 9:29pm
URL: http://civicaccess.416.s1.nabble.com/link-to-MP-from-ISF-pages-tp211p214.html

Quoting Michael Lenczner <[hidden email]>:

> so cory - what do you think?  do you know if / when you will have such
> capabilities?  Are you currently working on the project?  - i'm sure
> that time is an issue in terms of doing unpaid work.

It sounds great... i'd like to do it ASAP, but free time is an issue.
Fortunately adding new features is more fun than rewriting old ones, so
you
guys are in luck.  We're planning more overhauls on our database and code, so
structure is likely to change.  Identifying MPs by a seemingly-random integer
isn't any good -- i'd like to have a few options, perhaps by name, EDID, or
anything else you guys would like.

Things i'm considering:
- hosting a Web Map Server (WMS) with the voting/attendance/etc data themed
- providing a lat/long --> EDID / MP lookup service
- improved RSS

We do have RSS, but it is rather weak at the moment:
http://www.howdtheyvote.ca/rss-info.php

I intend to use the geogratis 2004 shapefile, but will need permission
to run it
for the WMS (horray!, free data that we aren't allowed to actually
_use_). Doing the lat/long --> EDID lookup I can likely get away with,
without
permission -- since i'm not really reproducing their data (but since i'm
already getting permission...).

We're definitely getting provincial data as well (in a few months), so
it makes
sense to provide these integrated services.

XSLT I don't know anything about... will research as time permits.

Anyways, i'd love more input...

Cheers,
Cory.