I do a fair amount of political voter precinct analysis, and a way of easily mapping the results would be very helpful. So I was interested in a piece in the Boise Weekly (the Idaho alternative paper) wherein one of the reporters, Nathaniel Hoffman, tried to develop an approach for doing that, using mostly (though not entirely) open source options, including OpenOffice Calc and Qgis (I believe it's open source).
The process he used was pretty involved and time-consuming, though, and used a bunch of conversions - it's certainly not simple. He writes about it at http://www.boiseweekly.com/boise/mapping-city- council-races/Content?oid=1297504 Question - might there be some better way to automate this? If there is, a lot of people in the political world would be extremely interested. Randy Stapilus www.ridenbaugh.com Northwest politics and public affairs WA, OR, ID Public Affairs Digests _______________________________________________ PLUG mailing list PLUG@lists.pdxlinux.org http://lists.pdxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug
