Re: elections canada

Posted by Stéphane Zagar on Feb 02, 2007; 5:21pm
URL: http://civicaccess.416.s1.nabble.com/elections-canada-tp814p820.html

Hugh : for the finance data, if you ask for data per contributor, you can have, for example, all data for all parties (only parties, not election finance rounds), for all periods (2005-2006) in one file (something like 9.5MB with means many many data). You can do the same for each general election : ask for contributor for all parties, all ridings.

If we have to retrieve 1 set of data for each quarter and each general election, it,s not that bad.

Cocnerning the tool for the ZIP code/riding, same conclusion as Daniel, no obvious way to retrieve that for what I can see.

On 2/2/07, Daniel Haran <[hidden email]> wrote:

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

Well, I first checked the copyright, which seems OK for non-profit use.

Second, I tried to replace the postal code parameter in the URL, but
no dice. Non-geek translation: they make it difficult to check
different postal codes. Since no list that I know is public domain,
you'd have to more or less try each one to find the 500,000+ that are
valid. Could take a while.

d.

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