Posted by
Michael Lenczner on
Mar 21, 2007; 2:28am
URL: http://civicaccess.416.s1.nabble.com/civic-engagement-using-portal-pages-tp947p955.html
On 3/20/07, Cory Horner <
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> Michael Lenczner wrote:
> > yep -
http://www.wifidog.org . We (ISF) started that software project.
> > Now it's being used by 32 other communities across 4 contintents.
> >
> > The best thing is that each portal page can be different. So that's
> > why I always wanted per-MP rss feeds from howdtheyvote. Use a
> > hotspot, find out about the civic info in that area.
> >
> It's coming -- I realize i've lost *all* credibility here, but really :)
>
Not at all. HDV is volunteer driven. And there's only 2 of you. Not
a question of expectations, just of excitement/anticipation.
> Ack... it's time we just solved the postal code/address problem so we
> can interlink all these things.
>
> Does someone want to donate a postgres/postgis instance (iles sans fil?)
> -- i'll toss the geogratis 2004 electoral boundaries shapefile in, and
> build a quick link with geocoder. We can then offer address/postal
> code/coordinates to electoral district conversion. As we acquire
> additional spatial data, we can offer similar services for provincial
> jurisdictions as well.
>
Sorry - you reached my geek limit. I'm not sure what you need. Just a
postgis install?
I'm not sure that this will help us show content. I think for the
purposes of Wifidog that we'll be manually tie-ing MP rss feeds to
individual content.
Let me know. And I hope that it's okay if a bit more of this
discussion happens on-list?
> Cheers,
> Cory.
>
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