Some new Canadian opendata sites
Jennifer Bell
1. Represent.me http://representme.ca/
If you're in Ottawa, you can find out who represents you, and what
they've been doing lately (similar to NYTRepresent)
2. OpenParliament http://openparliament.ca
Track Canadian bills, MPs, and debates. It has a very slick interface,
for instance:
http://openparliament.ca/politicians/carolyn-bennett/
It's modeled on theyworkforyou.com, but with a django code base.
3. A citizen-run data catalog will launch soon at datadotgc.ca
4. About 6-8 weeks ago, Cory Horner at How'dTheyVote put up a clever
postalcode-to-MP and postalcode-to-riding lookup API. The API by-
passes the $1000+ access fee usually charged for this information by
using $150 maps from Canada Post and free ones from Elections
Canada.
I wonder how many of these sites are using that API? It would be
interesting to track what Cory's stuff has enabled.
Jennifer
Luke Closs
<visibleg...@gmail.com> wrote:
> I wonder how many of these sites are using that API? It would be
> interesting to track what Cory's stuff has enabled.
One thing I think we should be building into these tools is logging
and statistics gathering so that we can know how the tools are being
used, and what the popular content is...
Really awesome stuff going on lately!
Cheers,
Luke
Andy Kaplan-Myrth
How many of those new projects (if any) are connected with VG or the
VG community?
Cheers,
Andy
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Michael Mulley
this list for a while.
And yes, I'm using Cory's postal code API (it's mentioned on the about
page). Thanks!
Jennifer Bell
just lovely, and has struck a chord w/ the general public -- as
evidenced by the crazy traction it's getting on twitter.
I should mention that Micheal and Cory are also members of the
CivicAccess mailing list. That group has been investigating the
postal code issue for several years now.
To answer your question for the other projects, Andy:
Represent.me was inspired by & created for the upcoming Open Data
Hackaton, organized by Edward Ocampo-Gooding & others:
http://opendataottawa.ca/
datadotgc.ca is organized by David Eaves. The mailing list for the
group is here:
http://groups.google.com/group/datadotgcca
I got access to the mailing list on Friday, and was looking at the
closed beta prototype yesterday. It's generally quite good (!). I
think their plan is to go out of beta this week or next.
I agree with Luke -- a lot of great stuff going down.
Jennifer
On Apr 12, 9:44 pm, Michael Mulley <mich...@michaelmulley.com> wrote:
> I'll answer that: openparliament.ca is my project, and I've been on
> this list for a while.
>
> And yes, I'm using Cory's postal code API (it's mentioned on the about
> page). Thanks!
>
> On Mon, Apr 12, 2010 at 9:10 PM, Andy Kaplan-Myrth <a...@kaplan-myrth.ca> wrote:
> > I saw openparliament.ca earlier today -- fantastic.
>
> > How many of those new projects (if any) are connected with VG or the
> > VG community?
>
> > Cheers,
> > Andy
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> > On Mon, Apr 12, 2010 at 6:30 PM, Luke Closs <lukecl...@gmail.com> wrote:
> >> On Mon, Apr 12, 2010 at 3:27 PM, Jennifer Bell
> >> <visiblegovernm...@gmail.com> wrote:
> >>> I wonder how many of these sites are using that API? It would be
> >>> interesting to track what Cory's stuff has enabled.
>
> >> One thing I think we should be building into these tools is logging
> >> and statistics gathering so that we can know how the tools are being
> >> used, and what the popular content is...
>
> >> Really awesome stuff going on lately!
>
> >> Cheers,
> >> Luke
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