Re: [datameet] draft 2 of ECI Letter

2014-05-25 Thread 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

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[datameet] draft 2 of ECI Letter

2014-05-14 Thread 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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Re: [datameet] draft 2 of ECI Letter

2014-05-14 Thread 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.



On 15-May-2014, at 10:08 am, Venkatraman S venka...@gmail.com wrote:

 
 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?  
 
 
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