500 Internal Server Error - Multiple Districts with Boundary ID

[Aaron Kreider]

I'm testing out geocoding addresses in MD (with Google's geocoder) and then using Open States to find the legislator.  The first two worked.  The third address gave me an error:

NetworkError: 500 INTERNAL SERVER ERROR - http://openstates.org/api/v1//legislators/geo/?lat=39.5447164&long=-77.10399439999998&apikey=8f39955b55d7450d9f73932701df54e1&callback=jQuery20308688839607813031_1393963597624&_=1393963597631"

If I open the URL directly I get:

Piston/0.2.3rc1 (Django 1.4.5) crash report: Traceback (most recent call last): File "/projects/openstates/src/billy/billy/web/api/handlers.py", line 86, in new_read obj = old_read(*args, **kwargs) File "/projects/openstates/src/billy/billy/web/api/handlers.py", line 416, in read boundary_id) ValueError: multiple districts with boundary_id: sldl/md-5


You can see my code at www.energyjustice.net/action/action.php
If you enter a street address and zip code it will geocode it and show you the legislators - you can do that safely without triggering any emails.

[James Turk]

Hi Aaron-

Thanks for bringing this to my attention- it looks like there's a hiccup in the source data for Maryland along that boundary that causes the point to appear in two districts when one is expected.  I actually haven't seen this happen before but I'll look and see if there's been an update to the Census files and if we can get a fix put in.  Otherwise we can probably build in a temporary workaround.

-James

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[James Turk]

I should mention, if you'd like to track this issue I'll be working on it here: https://sunlight.atlassian.net/browse/DATA-156

[Aaron Kreider]

Thanks James for looking into it!

[ch...@centerdynamics.com]

Greetings!
 
Google brought me right here, so if there is a better place to post this please let me know...

On 12/26/14, we saw a 500 on a lat/long pair in MD:

http://openstates.org/api/v1//legislators/geo/

Request:
    "Name": "lat",
    "Value": 39.20996,

    "Name": "long",
    "Value": -76.79732,
  

Response: 
Piston/0.2.3rc1 (Django 1.6.2) crash report:
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/projects/openstates/virt/src/billy/billy/web/api/handlers.py", line 86, in new_read
    obj = old_read(*args, **kwargs)
  File "/projects/openstates/virt/src/billy/billy/web/api/handlers.py", line 416, in read
    boundary_id)
ValueError: multiple districts with boundary_id: sldl/md-12

On Wednesday, March 5, 2014 11:01:42 AM UTC-5, James Turk wrote:

Hi Aaron-

Thanks for bringing this to my attention- it looks like there's a hiccup in the source data for Maryland along that boundary that causes the point to appear in two districts when one is expected.  I actually haven't seen this happen before but I'll look and see if there's been an update to the Census files and if we can get a fix put in.  Otherwise we can probably build in a temporary workaround.

-James

On Tue, Mar 4, 2014 at 3:20 PM, Aaron Kreider <aaronk...@gmail.com> wrote:

I'm testing out geocoding addresses in MD (with Google's geocoder) and then using Open States to find the legislator.  The first two worked.  The third address gave me an error:

NetworkError: 500 INTERNAL SERVER ERROR - http://openstates.org/api/v1//legislators/geo/?lat=39.5447164&long=-77.10399439999998&apikey=8f39955b55d7450d9f73932701df54e1&callback=jQuery20308688839607813031_1393963597624&_=1393963597631"

If I open the URL directly I get:

Piston/0.2.3rc1 (Django 1.4.5) crash report: Traceback (most recent call last): File "/projects/openstates/src/billy/billy/web/api/handlers.py", line 86, in new_read obj = old_read(*args, **kwargs) File "/projects/openstates/src/billy/billy/web/api/handlers.py", line 416, in read boundary_id) ValueError: multiple districts with boundary_id: sldl/md-5


You can see my code at www.energyjustice.net/action/action.php
If you enter a street address and zip code it will geocode it and show you the legislators - you can do that safely without triggering any emails.

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