Hi Tim, Seb, You're doing great work here, and I do agree it is time to send a first mail to the 602 volunteers so far asking them to help fill in the blanks.
I do think that overlaying Matthew's SVG on some sort of normal map will be a powerful tool for helping people think up new friends to invite. If you can manage that you'll have a brilliant link to email out which I'm pretty sure will get people fired up. Off topic, I've also thought of another possible task you can ask the volunteers a bit further down the line - you could encourage people to collect CC licensed photos of the candidates, not just for mySociety and TheStraightChoice, but for everyone interested in the election. best, Tom 2009/11/2 Matthew Somerville <[email protected]>: > Seb Bacon wrote: >> >> That is pretty sweet. Are you able to share the code for generating it? > > Sure: http://cake.ukcod.org.uk/~matthew/demclub/make-map.pl > > http://cake.ukcod.org.uk/~matthew/demclub/svg-id-to-name is just the table > from the Wikipedia SVG page mapping ID numbers to names; it reads in the RSS > feed constituency names and adds a class to those entries in the SVG which > is the same as the Wikipedia SVG except for all party colours altered to > white and an extra "none" class added in grey. > > ATB, > Matthew > >> 2009/11/2 Matthew Somerville <[email protected]>: >>> >>> Seb Bacon wrote: >>>> >>>> We've been having a conversation on the Democracy Club list about how >>>> to achieve 100% constituency coverage. There's some visualisations >>>> here: http://www.democracyclub.org.uk/statistics/ >>> >>> Here's an SVG of the country (from the Wikipedia SVG map) showing the >>> constituencies with no coverage in grey taken from the RSS feed: >>> http://cake.ukcod.org.uk/~matthew/demclub/no-coverage.svg >>> Someone could superimpose that on an OpenStreetMap or whatever somehow, >>> then >>> that might be a bit easier to locate places containing people you know. > > _______________________________________________ > Mailing list [email protected] > Archive, settings, or unsubscribe: > https://secure.mysociety.org/admin/lists/mailman/listinfo/developers-public > _______________________________________________ Mailing list [email protected] Archive, settings, or unsubscribe: https://secure.mysociety.org/admin/lists/mailman/listinfo/developers-public
