If you store a point locations for people it allows for things like "email all the people covered by the so and so bye election " which might be ward/uk parl/euro parl. I'm a bit uneasy about letting people sign up for too many places as they wont have the local knowledge, and (importantly for thestraightchoice) wont be getting any election leaflets through the door if they dont live there.
On Wed, Sep 2, 2009 at 3:37 PM, John Browning <[email protected]> wrote: > A small thing, but I wonder if you're not getting too focussed on post > codes. Seems easy to do in this group, but anyway... > > You may well have groups of people that want to sign up for > constituencies in which they don't live, and indeed the option of > multiple constituencies implies that some will. It would probably be > easier for them to simply choose the constituency than to figure out a > postcode that maps to it as suggested in the google doc spec. Indeed > might be easier to just have everybody pick the constituency or > constituencies they want to work in -- which would also eliminate all > future work of keeping the post codes to constituencies mapping up to > date, though it would also increase the importance of letting people > manage their own sign-up commitments to change constituency if they > wish to follow shifting borders... > > allbests, > > > > > ................................................................................. > > John Browning > > t: +44 20 7700 1230 f: +44 20 7700 5255 > > > > > > On 2 Sep 2009, at 06:33, Timothy Green wrote: > > > Point taken, I've made a few notes at the bottom. There don't seem > > to be > > any real issues I suppose. > > > > http://docs.google.com/Doc?id=dgt6nt8h_1z8wdvdhp > > > > -t > > > > Seb Bacon wrote: > >> 2009/9/2 Timothy Green <[email protected]>: > >> > >>> In that case, would it make sense for me to start a collaborative > >>> google doc > >>> for converting the first phase specification into tasks in a > >>> Django-specific > >>> language? > >>> > >> > >> It would be useful. On the other hand, Phase 1 apparently doesn't > >> amount to much more than "collect email addresses by constituency > >> derived from postcodes", so I don't think it's absolutely necessary > >> just yet. > >> > >> Seb > >> > >> > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > > Mailing list [email protected] > > Archive, settings, or unsubscribe: > > > https://secure.mysociety.org/admin/lists/mailman/listinfo/developers-public > > > > > _______________________________________________ > Mailing list [email protected] > Archive, settings, or unsubscribe: > https://secure.mysociety.org/admin/lists/mailman/listinfo/developers-public > -- /* [email protected] memespring.co.uk ++44 7976730458 memespring (flickr/skype/etc) memspr (aim) */
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