John Browning 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...

I guess it depends how much people would want to do their "own" 
constituency (and therefore need a way of finding out what that is) - 
Tom's original email Phase 3 included things like uploading election 
leaflets, which presumably you would receive for your own constituency.

I agree that for this project it might not be necessary, if people were 
happy to just pick one they know is near them, and can pick their own 
once they get any literature (assuming it's for the right one! ;) ). But 
for people looking up, postcode is the easiest way of doing so if they 
don't know.

ATB,
Matthew

> 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...

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