This talk was quite close to some of the work we’ve been doing for the UN. It’s an example of something we could do by using google maps as the map server. To me the cool part comes when you can take arbitrary data sets and start to do drill down analyses/data exploration.
BC Electoral boundaries commission
http://www.bc-ebc-spike.dev/google_maps/
http://bc-ebc.ca/
-type in address, hit go, google returns a point and then they figure out which polygon you’re in and display it.
-this is b/c we’re switching from single member plurality to single transferable vote, and the regions change and become much larger.
-gpolygon method of the google map API
-view the JS source to get the boundary data
-do a mashup with historical voting and our software to show expected voting patterns.
-election BC
-boris - mybcgerimanding.com
-mashup with other data sources
-heat maps of crime
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