Interesting Vinay... Would you mind writing a blogpost about this for DataMeet.org?
Nisha On Tue, Aug 18, 2015 at 12:34 PM, Vinay Venu <[email protected]> wrote: > I tried spiking out a similar API last week, and parts of it look pretty > easy to build. I tried to merge data from the shape files with datameet > <https://github.com/datameet/maps> with MP information provided in > http://sansad.co. Sansad provides its API from PRS <http://prsindia.org/>. > Here <https://github.com/vinayvenu/politica> is a crude prototype > prepared during a hackathon. It needs a lot of love. A live demo here > <http://128.199.65.27:8090/leaders?y=12.9073061&x=77.6431242>. x and y > are latitude and longitude. > > On piece different from Google is that the API does not crowdsource the > data. At an India scale, I am hoping we can find official sources of data > that can be used to build this out. If no one already is providing this > API, I am more than happy to finish this up and host it. > > Regards > Vinay > > On Mon, Aug 17, 2015 at 8:44 PM, Amiruddin Nagri <[email protected]> > wrote: > >> This is a nice initiative by Google. Only in US though. >> >> https://developers.google.com/civic-information/?hl=en_US >> >> Anybody know of any similar initiative for India ? >> >> Regards, >> Amiruddin Nagri >> >> -- >> Datameet is a community of Data Science enthusiasts in India. Know more >> about us by visiting http://datameet.org >> --- >> 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. >> > > -- > Datameet is a community of Data Science enthusiasts in India. Know more > about us by visiting http://datameet.org > --- > 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. > -- Nisha Thompson DataMeet.org [email protected] skype: nishaqt mobile: 962-061-2245 -- Datameet is a community of Data Science enthusiasts in India. Know more about us by visiting http://datameet.org --- 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.
