Hi Josh, Thank for the info. Are you aware of any work being done to populate data from the github projects into a relational database? John...
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Josh Tauberer
tauberer
Dec 13, 2012 3:45 am
Hi, John. ... They're not really in the 'supported' set of files, and they will probably disappear in a few months when I transition to the new ...
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johnpankowicz
Dec 13, 2012 2:31 am
I would like to learn some more about the files contained in th "db" directory: database.sql and database.people.sql. * Are these files actively being used...
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Josh Tauberer
tauberer
Dec 11, 2012 4:57 pm
Hey, Harvey. I haven't really considered it. I can see how it would be useful, but I think it would take too much time to collect and maintain. Best, - Josh...
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Harvey Frey
hsfrey
Dec 6, 2012 9:21 pm
Hi Josh: Have you considered adding a list of Caucuses, Taskforces, Coalitions, etc. (eg, Blue Dogs) a congressman belongs to, to his/her description page? ...
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Josh Tauberer
tauberer
Dec 6, 2012 7:39 pm
Hi, all. Here are my current plans for the 113th Congress. New Members ... I hope to get info up on the new Members of Congress right after the current...
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cb299y
Nov 16, 2012 7:09 pm
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...
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cb299y
Nov 13, 2012 6:03 pm
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...
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cb299y
Nov 13, 2012 5:55 pm
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...
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Josh Tauberer
tauberer
Nov 8, 2012 6:45 pm
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...
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Josh Tauberer
tauberer
Oct 24, 2012 11:43 am
... Person Search by District in your API at all? You have three options for this: 1) https://github.com/unitedstates/congress-legislators Download...
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joseph_duero
Oct 24, 2012 11:33 am
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...
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Josh Tauberer
tauberer
Oct 21, 2012 4:43 pm
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...
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joseph_duero
Oct 21, 2012 4:36 pm
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...
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Josh Tauberer
tauberer
Oct 5, 2012 3:51 pm
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...
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Josh Tauberer
tauberer
Sep 5, 2012 3:04 pm
Thanks. The last fix broke that parameter (internally it is a complicated mapping to a different database column). Should be working now. - Josh Tauberer...
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kmustatea
Sep 5, 2012 2:33 pm
This call doesn't seem to work (it's one of the examples given in the documentation). The problem is with the Option parameter, I think. ...
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Josh Tauberer
tauberer
Sep 1, 2012 1:36 am
Try now. Sorry I lost track of this issue. - Josh Tauberer (@JoshData) http://razor.occams.info...
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kmustatea
Sep 1, 2012 12:55 am
Do you have an idea of how long it might take to fix this?...
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Josh Tauberer
tauberer
Aug 28, 2012 10:28 pm
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...
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Francis
francisgavila
Aug 28, 2012 10:04 pm
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),...
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Josh Tauberer
tauberer
Aug 7, 2012 3:48 pm
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...
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kmustatea
Aug 6, 2012 4:45 pm
Dear GovTrack, I'm having some trouble with some of the API methods. This seems to be a successful call: ...
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Josh Tauberer
tauberer
Jul 22, 2012 9:41 pm
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...
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Aaron Swartz
aaronswartz
Jul 22, 2012 1:50 pm
... progressive movement that partisan services tend to be more poorly-built than nonpartisan ones and, therefore, by acting so vehemently against ...
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Josh Tauberer
tauberer
Jul 19, 2012 12:54 pm
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...
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Josh Tauberer
tauberer
Jul 13, 2012 1:20 am
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...
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Josh Tauberer
tauberer
Jun 23, 2012 7:03 pm
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...
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Josh Tauberer
tauberer
Jun 21, 2012 6:15 pm
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...
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Josh Tauberer
tauberer
Jun 7, 2012 11:44 pm
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) ...
