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Elections Voter Precincts

Represent

by OpenNorth

Represent is an open database of elected officials and districts in Canada. Open North provides a template to be filled out and uploaded on municipal websites. Open North has an API for finding representatives and districts by geographic location.

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Assessment

  • Open License Yes

  • Transferable to Other Jurisdictions No

    The fields in the template correspond only to Canadian electoral districts and positions

  • Stakeholder Participation No

    Template and API created solely by Open North

  • Consensus-Based Governance Yes

    All of Open North's projects are on GitHub, although contribution appears to be solely internal

  • Extensions Yes

    Template has optional fields as well as tolerance for additional fields (such as Personal Website)

  • Human Readable Yes

    Spreadsheets are downloadable and viewable in Excel or similar program

  • Machine Readable Yes

    CSV or .xls spreadsheets are machine readable

  • Requires Up-To-Date / Real-Time Data No

  • Metadata No

Data Providers (1)

  • Open North

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GovEx — Bloomberg Center for Government Excellence Geothink

A project of the Bloomberg Center for Government Excellence at Johns Hopkins University, with Geothink / McGill University and the open data community.