http://mapit.mysociety.org/areas/Saffron?type=WMC
Brings up only Westminster Constituencies with Saffron in their name. Ryan Cullen http://blog.artesea.co.uk @artesea On Wed, Aug 25, 2010 at 15:14, Leigh Caldwell <[email protected]> wrote: > 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. > > > -- > Leigh Caldwell (t) +44 20 7064 6556 (m) +44 7747 062906 > Chief executive, Inon http://www.inon.com/ > Blog: http://www.knowingandmaking.com/ > > _______________________________________________ > Mailing list [email protected] > Archive, settings, or unsubscribe: > https://secure.mysociety.org/admin/lists/mailman/listinfo/developers-public >
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