Oops! The origianl XSLT file I posted did not transform the birthday as is necessary to load dates into Filemaker. So here's another XSLT file (this one is to...
So here is the text of the XSLT file I created (I can see that others have posted file attachments, but I can't see a button to do it here. But who cares, it's...
I wanted to offer some lessons I learned in putting this data up in Filemaker, as I would think others probably use that platform. (Hopefully this is the...
Some of you may be using the old congressional districts WMS map layers for Google Maps API. These are the layers created by referencing a URL that looked like...
Hey Josh, You have helped me greatly! I really appreciate the advice and guidance. I ended up going w/ MapQuest rather than Google, since there isn't an...
Hi, Joseph. I use a combination of the Google Maps geocoder (address to lat/lng) plus a GIS system based on work by the Chicago Tribune and OpenNorth (lat/lng...
I am doing some work for a Non-Profit that requires the ability to determine who there Congress members are by ZIP+4. It's great that www.govtrak.us has added...
FYI - The project below is one day going to replace the current GovTrack raw data. This is just an early heads-up. I don't plan to discontinue any of the...
Thanks. The last fix broke that parameter (internally it is a complicated mapping to a different database column). Should be working now. - Josh Tauberer...
Hey, Francis. I just copied the schemas into a new directory here: http://www.govtrack.us/data/rdf/schemas/ (They actually never were at those URLs. This was...
I'm looking for any existing RDF ontologies or vocabularies for US government stuff, in particular for bills, political persons (e.g. those with bioguide IDs),...
Hi, The backend is probably missing the conversion from the string constant to the proper numeric constant used in the database. I'll take a look. - Josh...
I don't see where in there you are being disparaging, let alone for NB being nonpartisan. You're basically just repeating NB's business model ... Feel free to...
Well I got the feedback I was asking for on these license changes! Here's the short story. Starting tomorrow this will be added to the ... This is pretty inert...
Dear data re-users, This is advanced notice that on July 20 I'll be revising the terms of GovTrack's generic license agreement by adding the following...
Eric- Thanks for reporting this bug 15 months ago. :-) It is now fixed. (Although note that the committee code differs from the House's committee code because...
Just a heads-up that the new congressman from AZ isn't in the data yet so there are a bunch of voting records with missing data. I'm hoping to get to it by...
There was another vacated vote: http://clerk.house.gov/evs/2012/roll327.xml So there will be no roll call 327 file on GovTrack. -- - Josh Tauberer (@JoshData) ...
... Yeah this part is weird. The only status taken into account is whether the bill has been reported by committee. So reported bills get a boost. Enacted...
Sorting on prognosis is a cool idea. Does that mean that bills already passed into law will always occur at the top, or the bottom, or...? You are the last...
... Yeah, that is worth a try. I'm now sorting bills on the advanced search by a modified-prognosis score that just omits any boost that post office bills and...
Probably, yeah. Right now the API is based on the Django ORM, which hits MySQL. That's not great for search so I have to see if I can switch it transparently...
Sweet. Are you going to dive into text search at all? This has become the most useful thing to come out of RTC, though I haven't documented the search methods...
