Feedback on features and issues for next version of API
Daniel Berlin
The API seems to have done quite well during the election, serving
over 5 million queries at about 70ms latency.
Now that the November 2nd election is over, we have a bit of free time :)
Besides serving new elections through the API, we'd like to solicit
both feedback and feature requests on what people want to see out of
the next version of the API.
IE what data people want it to provide[1], and how to provide it.
I've already heard a few feature requests for more matching IDs for
polling locations, which i'm looking into.
But we are happy to hear any other feedback and feature requests that
folks have :)
I've created a Google Moderator series to submit feedback at
https://www.google.com/moderator/#15/e=3acfd&t=3acfd.40 (it allows
voting on questions/feedback, which gives us some way to prioritize)
We're glad to have done this, and plan on continuing to provide the
API for whatever elections people want to throw at it :)
--Dan
[1] though undocumented, it was providing city/county/state election
official data and statewide race data if it could identify the state,
formats, etc. We could provide this data as it is integrated now,
serve it through another API endpoint, etc.
antony.trupe
http://goo.gl/mod/edB8
On Nov 9, 12:50 pm, Daniel Berlin <dan...@google.com> wrote:
> Hi folks,
> The API seems to have done quite well during the election, serving
> over 5 million queries at about 70ms latency.
> Now that the November 2nd election is over, we have a bit of free time :)
>
> Besides serving new elections through the API, we'd like to solicit
> both feedback and feature requests on what people want to see out of
> the next version of the API.
> IE what data people want it to provide[1], and how to provide it.
>
> I've already heard a few feature requests for more matching IDs for
> polling locations, which i'm looking into.
> But we are happy to hear any other feedback and feature requests that
> folks have :)
Scott Danzig
Scott Danzig
Daniel Berlin
> Hey, looks like you're doing pretty good work on this project, which I just
> found out about. I'm interested in using the API for one of my own
> projects, but I'm wondering... what's the state on version 2 of the API?.
It's still being worked on, we're trying to reformat things about so
we can publish general political data by address.
> .I
> only see documentation available for version 2. Was it released in
> September 2010? Also, I'm not sure how to do any testing against the API..
> I do one test query and I see the midterm general election having ended.
> I'm interested in having some sort of testing environment perhaps with data
> leading up to the 2010 midtern election.
This data is very badly out of date by now. I can point you at some
more up to date test elections, if you want.
I'm also interested in knowing
> whether v2 of the API is available now, and if not, how much will it differ
> from v1
It's not available yet, but it will be pretty different. Not in terms
of query format, but in terms of response
> ?
> Thanks.