My current address, in Clonsilla in Dublin (20 year old estate), gives
me a road in Gorey, Co. Wicklow.

My previous address, also in Clonsilla, Dublin (five year old estate),
gives me the same.

An address in the back end of Mayo mostly works, but I wouldn't be
confident that the electoral district was right - it's showing the
right village, but not the right townland - which has a number of
spellings on official signs locally.

A much older address for me in Lesson Street shows Westland Row and I
don't think that's the right ward at all.

So 0.5/4 so far!

Colman

On 12 Jan 2009, at 18:49, NRK Blue wrote:

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> Righto, trying to think of all the addresses I can remember;
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> 1. my current one, Spiddal in Galway - works
> 2. my last one in Galway - Doesn't work, shows me "Tumna" electoral
> district in Roscommon
> 3. My last one in Dublin - works
> 4. My first one in Dublin - Doesn't work - gives me westland row
> instead of Rathfarnham
> 5. My brother's last address, Dublin - doesn't work, same as above
> 6. My brother's second-to-last address, Dublin - works
> 7. My parents' address - gives killorglan electoral district.
>
> Hope that helps... I'm stumped for others right now. Actual
> addresses will be PMd to you.
>
> Dermot
>
> --- On Mon, 12/1/09, John H <john@...> wrote:
> From: John H <john@...>
> Subject: [vocalvoter] Remember us? Vocalvoter / FaxYourTD.
> To: vocalvoter@yahoogroups.com
> Date: Monday, 12 January, 2009, 3:09 AM
>
> Hello, everyone
>
> I entirely understand if, after nearly two and a half years, you've
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> forgotten about this project, or if you now decide you no longer have
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> any time or interest in it.
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> If you want out of the list, you can unsubscribe here:
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> http://groups. yahoo.com/ group/vocalvoter /join
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> However...
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> We think we've now more or less solved the largest issue with building
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> sites for voters in Ireland.
>
> In combination with a large spatial database, the fact that Yahoo!
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> Maps now exists in Ireland (it didn't last year) and has better and
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> more precise coverage here than the other web mapping options has
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> enabled me to put a very small test website together.
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> At this point, if you're still able to help in any way at all, I'd
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> like to ask you to do the following very small tasks:
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> 1. Visit http://handelaar. org:9999/ and enter your own home address
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> and/or some others you can think of in Ireland.
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> 2. Post back to this list telling me if it worked -- by which I mean
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> you saw a map and it told you correctly which Electoral Division or
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> Ward you live in -- or if it didn't work, or if it got the address
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> completely wrong.
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> It *will* fail for some people (it has only been there for about an
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> hour and it's ugly and it needs lots more work). But I'm looking for
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> an idea of how often, and how badly, and for how many people it
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> doesn't work.
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> 'Cos if it does alright for a clear majority of people then we're very
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> much back in business.
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> I'm hoping to be able to publish a new site which can at least
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> reliably tell people WHO their local elected representatives are, and
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> to be able to do so in the next week or so.
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> Thanks for your attention, again.
>
> John Handelaar
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> PS: Nerd notes -- this prototype is written in Python and is running
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> on a Django app server. If Python and/or PostGIS are things you know
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> about and you may be willing to assist, please let me know. Because
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> I'm not the world's fastest or best programmer by any means.
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