Hi there
I've been trying to look up Westminster constituencies on the excellent new
MapIt service by ONS ID (e.g. D84 for Saffron Walden). However it appears
that they are not coded in this way (except possibly in Northern Ireland).
Instead I assume the area IDs used are the BoundaryLine primary keys (65654
in this case). Anyone know if that's correct?
Alternatively, it would be good to look them up by canonical name. I can do
this by going to /areas/Saffron Walden and then parsing the results, but
that also includes council wards beginning with Saffron Walden, so it's a
bit indirect and means making an extra call to the web service.
I'm happy to try to get into the code and add this feature myself (I will
have to get round to learning Python eventually), but wondered if anyone's
already working on it or if I have missed something in the API - or if it is
just a matter of loading in an extra data file to update the codes table.
The table of constituency names and ONS codes is available free from the ONS
site and is a straightforward list of key-value pairs. Maybe I just need to
write a data loader to import that and insert its contents into the codes
table.
Many thanks in advance for any tips
Leigh.
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