Re: elections canada

Posted by Stéphane Zagar on Feb 02, 2007; 4:52pm
URL: http://civicaccess.416.s1.nabble.com/elections-canada-tp814p817.html

Hugh,

At least all the financing data are available through tab-delimited file which is better than nothing to export them to a database for exemple.
You can have :
- Finance for each fed party on a quarterly base
- Finance for each riding/election
- You can have the name & zip code of each contributor

(when you do a search with there engine, you always have on to of the screen a link for a file. If you do your seach with no search parameter, you can retrieve all the data)

It's there  : http://www.elections.ca/scripts/webpep/fin/welcome.aspx?lang=e

For the other elements, I don't know. A mapping zipcode/riding would be very useful for example

On 2/2/07, Hugh McGuire <[hidden email]> wrote:

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.ca

What 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:

> Hi Hugh,
>
> What information are you hoping to get, and in what format?
>
> On 2/2/07, Hugh McGuire <[hidden email]> wrote:
>> does anyone know anything about mass extraction of data from the

>> elections canada site?
>> http://www.elections.ca/
>>
>> hugh.
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