Hi Anand, thanks, I have the psleci data already (its the basis for my electoral maps). As for the part names, I have looked around on the UP CEO site, and found that the BLO detail search function contains both part name and station name - but for an all-India solution, I will have to slowly query electoralsearch.in I think - so that the rate limiting does not kick in...
Lets see, RAphael On 14.04.2014 10:54, Anand Chitipothu wrote: > Hi Raphael, > > It is possible to get the polling station names from: > http://www.eci-polldaymonitoring.nic.in/psleci/Default.aspx > > I have a scrap of that data I can share with you if you want it. > > But if are looking for part name etc, I can't think of any other way > than hitting election commission website with one query for polling > booth. I don't think one query per booth should be considered mass > queries. Did you try searching one the state election commission website > with voter id? > > Anand > > > > On Mon, Apr 14, 2014 at 12:50 PM, Raphael Susewind > <[email protected] <mailto:[email protected]>> wrote: > > Dear all, > > I am trying to find a list that links polling station names (usually > something like "City Montessory School Room 1") and roll part names > (usually something like "Mohalla XY"), preferably in latin script. > > The PDF rolls have both data on the frontpage, but a) in regional > scripts and b) usually not extractable (the encoding bug we already > discussed on this list). > > electoralsearch.in <http://electoralsearch.in> shows both data if > one searches with an EPIC id from > that particular booth, but they shut out mass queries (and rightly so). > > Does anybody know of any other scrapable data source for this? > > Best, > Raphael > > -- > Raphael Susewind | BGHS Bielefeld University, CSASP University of Oxford > Snail Mail | Melanchthonstr. 4a, 33615 Bielefeld, Germany > Papers & Blog | http://www.raphael-susewind.de > > Please do consider http://www.gnupg.org for encryption (key id A5ED49AE) > > -- > For more details about this list > http://datameet.org/discussions/ > --- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google > Groups "datameet" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, > send an email to [email protected] > <mailto:datameet%[email protected]>. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. > > > > > -- > Anand > http://anandology.com/ > > -- > For more details about this list > http://datameet.org/discussions/ > --- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google > Groups "datameet" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send > an email to [email protected] > <mailto:[email protected]>. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. -- Raphael Susewind | BGHS Bielefeld University, CSASP University of Oxford Snail Mail | Melanchthonstr. 4a, 33615 Bielefeld, Germany Papers & Blog | http://www.raphael-susewind.de Please do consider http://www.gnupg.org for encryption (key id A5ED49AE) -- For more details about this list http://datameet.org/discussions/ --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "datameet" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
