Re: MP list - now in CSV
Posted by
Hugh McGuire on
Mar 21, 2007; 1:57am
URL: http://civicaccess.416.s1.nabble.com/MP-list-now-in-CSV-tp944p954.html
daniel/mike:
looks fantastic...both projects.
what would be fantastic is to find a way to combine this data, with MIke L's idea @ civicsense ... a collection of RSS feeds for each politician. These feeds could include RSS feeds from google news (containing, say, "Stephen Harper") and blog mentions in Technorati/google blogs.
Stephane (i think) is in the process of setting up a user-input database to try to get postal code/electoral district info into one place, in a free format.
I had thought initially that a wiki might be a good way to try to collect this data into one place - but it maybe a better system would be something like drupal, with each riding/politician getting a page. or maybe wiki could still be a more flexible way to go?
in any case, it'll be nice to get this so-basic data into the hands of citizen groups ... as-is or expanded. and I think it might be interesting to consider promoting on these projects the civicaccess.ca message/mission (ie.: "The govt should give this to us for free ... instead we need to do all this extra work or pay money for this basic democratic information") .
anyway, good work guys.
cheers,
hugh.
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On Mar 19, 2007, at 6:04 AM, Daniel Haran wrote:
C'est le délire!
Thanks.
Oh dear. 80 visitors so far, and Google has been indexing a new page
every 2 minutes this morning (70+ at last count).
Someone asked me when they'll be able to look up MPs by postal code,
and I have to admit the exercise is tempting - especially as my
employer is willing to let me spend 20% of my time developing these
types of projects.
-Daniel.
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