Hi Roger
Just to clarify, is it MP-level or councillor-level data you are looking
for? Both are available commercially but there are a lot more sources for
the MP data, meaning that (depending on what you want exactly) you're much
more likely to be able to get a version of that for free.
A company called Goveval which I'm involved with offers commercial licences
for both (as well as some other datasets), so do drop me an email if you
want to discuss. But I'd have thought for a non-commercial application you
could use the MP data from theyworkforyou. Is that not updated with last
week's results yet?
Leigh.
On 17 May 2010 18:15, Roger Moffatt <[email protected]> wrote:
> Hi everyone,
>
> What's the most reliable source of election result information that is in
> the public domain and/or open source? We were using the very handy
> ukparse.kforge.net data but have hit problems with the results in that
> some of the data is stale as result of the underlying sources not being
> updated (eg the guardian stuff which still shows the old majority and swing
> info (which is kind of expected I guess)).
>
> I note that some folks here have used the press association data, but from
> looking at their terms and conditions, any such use is strictly off limits
> without payment and written agreement - or are they happy to grant
> permission for free if you contact them? Likewise the guardian data is
> pretty restrictive if you use the api as you are not allowed to keep the
> data for more than 24 hours and I'd prefer to be able to update it on my
> terms, rather than someone else's.
>
> Maybe I'm missing something obvious? But I'm relatively new to the election
> data arena and so may not be seeing the wood for the trees.
>
> What we're doing with the data by the way is a small (currently free)
> iPhone app called MP Finder - which uses opendata from the Ordnance Survey
> for the polygon data for each constituency so that you can just tap anywhere
> on the map to find the MP rather than needing a postcode. We took all of
> that data and wrangled it into a kml file which then drives the webservice
> api we use for the lookup.
>
> But it would be great to get the results sorted as the app is a bit lacking
> in detail without it!
>
> Help appreciated
>
> Roger
>
>
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