If we finish crowdsourcing http://www.yournextmp.com/ then that'd be
where I'd say to go.
-t
On 17/05/10 18:15, Roger Moffatt wrote:
Hi everyone,
What's the most reliable source of election result information that is
in the public domain and/or open source? We were using the very handy
ukparse.kforge.net <http://ukparse.kforge.net> data but have hit
problems with the results in that some of the data is stale as result
of the underlying sources not being updated (eg the guardian stuff
which still shows the old majority and swing info (which is kind of
expected I guess)).
I note that some folks here have used the press association data, but
from looking at their terms and conditions, any such use is strictly
off limits without payment and written agreement - or are they happy
to grant permission for free if you contact them? Likewise the
guardian data is pretty restrictive if you use the api as you are not
allowed to keep the data for more than 24 hours and I'd prefer to be
able to update it on my terms, rather than someone else's.
Maybe I'm missing something obvious? But I'm relatively new to the
election data arena and so may not be seeing the wood for the trees.
What we're doing with the data by the way is a small (currently free)
iPhone app called MP Finder - which uses opendata from the Ordnance
Survey for the polygon data for each constituency so that you can just
tap anywhere on the map to find the MP rather than needing a postcode.
We took all of that data and wrangled it into a kml file which then
drives the webservice api we use for the lookup.
But it would be great to get the results sorted as the app is a bit
lacking in detail without it!
Help appreciated
Roger
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