[CivicAccess-discuss] postal code-->electoral district: a free + legal way

[Daniel Haran]

The problem there is that it returns the centroid (central point) for
the postal code. This works for the majority of postal codes areas
that do not overlap electoral districts.

d.

On Wed, Jan 28, 2009 at 11:20 PM, Jennifer Bell <jenniferlianne at yahoo.ca> wrote:
>
> It came out on the changecamp discussion group that there may be a free, legal solution for the postal code->electoral district issue using two services:
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> 1. pcode->geocode at geocoder.ca
> 2. Cory's geocode->EDID lookup API
>
> I tried it for my postal code and it worked.  Could be good!
>
> Original discussion here:
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> http://groups.google.com/group/changecamp/browse_thread/thread/5e3e9d3a80cd3465
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> Jennifer
> http://visiblegovernment.ca
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