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Re: What is an EDID

Posted by Tracey P. Lauriault-2 on Feb 02, 2006; 9:16pm
URL: http://civicaccess.416.s1.nabble.com/link-to-MP-from-ISF-pages-tp211p236.html

wonderful!

Russell McOrmond wrote:

>Stephane Guidoin wrote:
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>>Just one question : what is EDID ?
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>   Electoral District ID.
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>Longer version:
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>   It is a number that Elections Canada sets for each federal electoral
>district.  For Ontario, they also match the provincial ridings as
>Ontario uses the same boundaries.
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>   It is a 5 digit number where the first 2 digits indicate the
>province, and the last 3 digits are a count within the province of the
>riding.
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>   I use these numbers on digital-copyright.ca to create a Drupal
>taxonomy that allows you to browse by province to get to a specific
>district.
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>http://www.digital-copyright.ca/edid     - List of provinces
>http://www.digital-copyright.ca/edid/35  - List of districts in Ontario
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>http://www.digital-copyright.ca/edid/35068  - Parkdale High-park
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>Listing of districts in Ontario (Note Prov= )
>http://www.elections.ca/scripts/pss/ListedByProvince.aspx?L=e&Prov=ON&QID=-1&PageID=10
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>Elections Canada Electoral district profile for Parkdale High-park (Note
>the ED= )
>http://www.elections.ca/scripts/pss/Profile.aspx?L=e&ED=35068&EV=25
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>   There is a lot of information that is keyed to this district number,
>and it is useful to always include this number whenever we are building
>data that is based on federal ridings.
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>   You do need to have some sort of a time indication as the numbers
>change when the boundaries are redrawn from time to time (Most recent by
>the "2003 Representation Order").
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>>Stéphane
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