Posted by
Hugh McGuire on
Feb 02, 2007; 4:40pm
URL: http://civicaccess.416.s1.nabble.com/elections-canada-tp814p816.html
All of it, in accessible format. ;)
I don't know enough about data formats, or what data might be useful,
but let me tell you what I would like to do.
I would like to extract data from elections canada, data useful to
the average citizen trying to decide who to vote for, and present
them in a new, more accessible way (starting with a wiki as an easy
way to get lots of people to help put data/content into place ... but
maybe migrating to something else). In addition to elections canada
info, I would like to collect for each MP & candidate, (websites,
policy platforms, contact info), and RSS feeds from howdtheyvote,
googlenews, technorati, and possibly other things. here is the
starting point:
http://visiblepolitics.caWhat info from elections.ca (to start):
- List of all ridings & who is the MP (relatively easy)
- List of postal codes for each riding
- Campaign finance data - currently only available as single webforms
(I think)
What format:
- a format that is easy to translate into wiki markup
cheers!
On Feb 2, 2007, at 11:24 AM, Daniel Haran wrote: