[CivicAccess-discuss] (g)rumbles reveal the bias

[Daniel Haran]

On Tue, Oct 28, 2008 at 11:08 AM, Tracey P. Lauriault
<tlauriau at gmail.com> wrote:
> Has there been research done to see if this is being done in Canada?
> Geogratis has the Hydrographic file for free - River Keepers  and the Water
> Alliance of Canada may be interested this sorta product.
>
> It would be awesome to have flow data, but also water quality, associations
> who are river stewards, historical data etc.  that could be user generated.
>
> Yes the US does this sorta thing first, as the tourist industry with a
> critical mass of tourists who roam the rivers and among that much larger
> number there is more money in the pool and a higher incentive to create such
> a tool!

The data is available here:
http://scitech.pyr.ec.gc.ca/waterweb/hydroPortfolio.asp

The format is such it would take at least a couple days to figure out
scraping, and it would be brittle and error-prone. It's been 6+ months
now that they've been contacted and agreed in principle to offer the
data.

Riverdex was built in 48 hours. So it would take us longer to grab the
data than to build a site that used it.

Maybe it would be faster if a few of us geeks just specified the
format. First on my list would be a simple HTML micro-format for
Hansard :)

d.