draft 2 of ECI Letter

[Nisha Thompson]

Hey All,

I have changed a few things from the first version. I put it up on the wiki for review here:

http://datameet.org/wiki/odclettertoecidraft

It would be good to send it now since Elections are over and we can do follow up with them.

Please add anything that you can think of.  Also if we can make a list of suggested formats to add as an attachment.  I have added Avinash suggested XML.

If someone could edit the letter to take out all the Americanisms that would be great also :)

Nisha

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[Venkatraman S]

On Thu, May 15, 2014 at 9:28 AM, Nisha Thompson <ni...@datameet.org> wrote:

Please add anything that you can think of.  Also if we can make a list of suggested formats to add as an attachment.  I have added Avinash suggested XML.

Why XML?  

[Ashish Pandey]

Hi,

I don’t want to start a debate on format but looking at current/emerging technologies & format used by those. I would like to propose a JSON (java script object notion) format. which has number of advantages over XML format including being faster.

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[Dilip Damle]

HI,

I think we should use the word "ESRI SHAPEFILE"  instead of "GIS" in format.

We could ask them if there is any Unique Identification for the Candidates so that we know when a person is contesting from more than one seats.
Example : There is no way that we can know (from the Data available ) that Hon. Mr. Modi who contested from Vadodara and Varanasi is the same individual.

[Anand Chitipothu]

On Thu, May 15, 2014 at 9:28 AM, Nisha Thompson <ni...@datameet.org> wrote:

Hey All,

I have changed a few things from the first version. I put it up on the wiki for review here:

http://datameet.org/wiki/odclettertoecidraft

It would be good to send it now since Elections are over and we can do follow up with them.

Please add anything that you can think of.  Also if we can make a list of suggested formats to add as an attachment.  I have added Avinash suggested XML.

If someone could edit the letter to take out all the Americanisms that would be great also :)

Couple of important things that are very hard to find are:

- list of assembly constituencies in each parliamentary constituency

- list of polling centers in an assembly constituency

- list of polling stations in each polling center

- name of ward/mandal/taluk for each polling center

The election commission appoints an officer for each polling center. So they clearly have information about the polling centers and list of polling stations in each polling center, but this information is not available anywhere for public consumption. 

Couple of the things listed above are available in various places, esp. the PDF voter lists. It would be very helpful and save a lot of time if this information is available in a machine readable format.

Anand