Re: MP list - now in CSV

Posted by Daniel Haran on Mar 20, 2007; 4:11pm
URL: http://civicaccess.416.s1.nabble.com/MP-list-now-in-CSV-tp944p952.html

Hi Judyth,

Thanks for the feedback.

Although I'm a big fan of chebucto community net, and was a member
early on, I used Chebucto because it was the name given to the Halifax
Harbour by the Míkmaq. My employer is http://www.growwwing.com/.

As for the server- let's see how well slicehost holds up. My
application may be slow because it's currently running with full
logging (diagnostics for me in case something goes wrong!), however
I'm not afraid traffic will crash it at this point.

Please forward away!

-Daniel.

On 3/19/07, Judyth <[hidden email]> wrote:

> Dear Daniel,
>
> Thank you very much for doing this, and I hope you will solve the lookup by postal code problem for us, too.
>
> It would be lovely if you could manage to do the same for provincial legislators. I don't know what else to suggest at the moment but I dare say you'll have requests from others.
>
> Meanwhile, I'd like to ask you how widely you want those URLs spread around. If I forwarded your message as-is to all my activist friends, the traffic might well crash your server.
>
> From your e-mail address and your understanding employer, I'm guessing you work for Chebucto's community network. Am I right? If so, please pass my compliments along to your workmates, too!
>
> Regards,
>
> Judyth
>
> ---
>
> >Message: 1
> >Date: Sun, 18 Mar 2007 19:31:24 -0400
> >From: "Daniel Haran" <[hidden email]>
> >Subject: [CivicAccess-discuss] MP list - now in CSV
> >
> >Hi folks,
> >
> >The list of MPs retrieved from the government's website has now been
> >cleaned up, and made available in CSV format (for databases and
> >spreadsheets) It is available here:
> >http://lokobo.com:3000/mps
> >http://lokobo.com:3000/mps.csv
> >
> >The data is in the public domain, as is the source code for retrieving
> >and displaying it on the web. The software is available through
> >http://rubyforge.org/scm/?group_id=3225 (technical information in
> >README).
> >
> >Now that I'm started, is there any other similar information anyone needs? :)
> >
> >Cheers,
> >
> >Daniel.
>
>
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