Wow, fantastic!

I tried about fifteen addresses. Mixture of townlands in Co. Limerick
together with addresses in Limerick city, and Dublins 1,2,3,6 and 7.

All the country addresses worked fine.

Dublin city addresses worked when I put the town/city as 'dublin'
instead of 'phibsborough' or 'ranelagh'.

In Limerick (not sure about elsewhere), there are a few streets where
the address is of the form: 3 Munster Terrace, O'Connell Avenue,
Limerick City, or 3 Courtbrack Terrace, South Circular Road, Limerick
City. (AFAIR the SCR in particular in Limerick spans two EDs). The
db doesn't seem to pick up those at all. They're on the CSO ED list
though.

So a success rate of 13/15 for me.

Congratulations, that's great progress. I've no Python skills to
speak of, but if there's anything else I can do, get in touch.

Cheers,

Thomas.



On Mon, Jan 12, 2009 at 11:01 AM, Editorial <smcgarr@...> wrote:
> Hello there.
>
> I live in Dublin. It returned somewhere in Wexford for me.
>
> S
>
> On 12 Jan 2009, at 03:09, John H wrote:
>
> Hello, everyone
>
> I entirely understand if, after nearly two and a half years, you've
> forgotten about this project, or if you now decide you no longer have
> any time or interest in it.
>
> If you want out of the list, you can unsubscribe here:
>
> http://groups.yahoo.com/group/vocalvoter/join
>
> However...
>
> We think we've now more or less solved the largest issue with building
> sites for voters in Ireland.
>
> In combination with a large spatial database, the fact that Yahoo!
> Maps now exists in Ireland (it didn't last year) and has better and
> more precise coverage here than the other web mapping options has
> enabled me to put a very small test website together.
>
> At this point, if you're still able to help in any way at all, I'd
> like to ask you to do the following very small tasks:
>
> 1. Visit http://handelaar.org:9999/ and enter your own home address
> and/or some others you can think of in Ireland.
>
> 2. Post back to this list telling me if it worked -- by which I mean
> you saw a map and it told you correctly which Electoral Division or
> Ward you live in -- or if it didn't work, or if it got the address
> completely wrong.
>
> It *will* fail for some people (it has only been there for about an
> hour and it's ugly and it needs lots more work). But I'm looking for
> an idea of how often, and how badly, and for how many people it
> doesn't work.
>
> 'Cos if it does alright for a clear majority of people then we're very
> much back in business.
>
> I'm hoping to be able to publish a new site which can at least
> reliably tell people WHO their local elected representatives are, and
> to be able to do so in the next week or so.
>
> Thanks for your attention, again.
>
> John Handelaar
>
> PS: Nerd notes -- this prototype is written in Python and is running
> on a Django app server. If Python and/or PostGIS are things you know
> about and you may be willing to assist, please let me know. Because
> I'm not the world's fastest or best programmer by any means.
>
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>
>