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

[Glen Newton]

> Otherwise, we mislead a fraction of voters.

Careful: you might be accused of being politicians!  ;-)

-glen

2009/1/29 Daniel Haran <chebuctonian at gmail.com>:
> On Thu, Jan 29, 2009 at 9:06 AM, Jennifer Bell <jenniferlianne at yahoo.ca> wrote:
>>
>> Isn't that a problem with all postal code to electoral district resolvers?
>>
>> Jennifer
>
> Well, something is definitely fubared with these lists, because they
> don't all return the same results.
>
> Technically though, it should be an area overlap. For those postal
> codes that overlap 2 or more EDIDs, all possibilities should be
> returned in a query.
>
> Otherwise, we mislead a fraction of voters.
>
> d.
>
>
>> --- On Thu, 1/29/09, Daniel Haran <chebuctonian at gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>>> From: Daniel Haran <chebuctonian at gmail.com>
>>> Subject: Re: [CivicAccess-discuss] postal code-->electoral district: a free +  legal way
>>> To: jenniferlianne at yahoo.ca, "civicaccess discuss" <civicaccess-discuss at civicaccess.ca>
>>> Received: Thursday, January 29, 2009, 8:27 AM
>>> 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:
>>> >
>>> > 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:
>>> >
>>> >
>>> http://groups.google.com/group/changecamp/browse_thread/thread/5e3e9d3a80cd3465
>>> >
>>> > Jennifer
>>> > http://visiblegovernment.ca
>>> >
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