list of contesting candidates

[Anand Chitipothu]

Looks like Election Commission has released the list of contesting
candidates in both html and xml format.

http://genesys.nic.in/ge_2009/pollupd/pc/

I started crawling these and add them to the site soon.

Election Commission is really going high-tech. :)

Anand

[R Prabhakar]

Dear Anand,

Looked at the ec site. Looks good.

We have candidate data that we can put on the site.

I think we should clean up and put out what currently exists
and then incrementally augment the data as we go along.

IMHO, the essential things to be done is

1. Clean up the map site and put it out.
Clean up the symbology.
Need to disable the scroll bar zoom on map.
This is a big usability issue.

2. Put the main page on the site and
change the icons for parties, from the
default lotus for all parties.

Anything else???

Prabhakar