Re: elections canada

Posted by Hugh McGuire on Feb 02, 2007; 5:02pm
URL: http://civicaccess.416.s1.nabble.com/elections-canada-tp814p818.html

> 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)

right, but it seems like this info is available only page by page (ie  
for each candidate, for each riding, for each party). I'd like a file  
with all that info in one place - instead of having 307 seats x 4  
candidates = 1228 individual files + parties.
>
> For the other elements, I don't know. A mapping zipcode/riding  
> would be very useful for example
elections canada provides this search tool:
http://www.elections.ca/scripts/pss/FindED.aspx?L=e

so the data is there... can we get it out tho?
>

h.

> 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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