http://www.guardian.co.uk/news/datablog/2010/may/07/uk-election-results-data-candidates-seats
has a spreadsheet of all the election data results, but doesn't mention
its licensing - I suggest you could ask, it looks like datablog stuff
appears to be pretty open.
If you happened to convert that data into the XML format
ukparse.kforge.net uses, I'd be happy to stick it up so that the data
found its way onto TheyWorkForYou and its API. :)
ATB,
Matthew
Roger Moffatt wrote:
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 <http://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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