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* Mass Elections Data - Boundary data for political divisions from the state’s GIS office. Much of the data, in the form of shapefiles, is available on their web site. Here’s a good collection: http://www.mass.gov/mgis/laylist.htm. There are separate files for congressional, legislative, county, and governor’s council districts. That’s what ethepeople uses to map specific addresses to the correct congressional, state, and county districts. There are a few gotchas at the county level, including, as I recall, the Franklin County DA also covering three towns in an adjoining county, but almost all political divisions except can be figured out from these files. There's also a town clerks association that might be helpful, since they run elections in most of the 351 cities and towns. http://www.newenglandclerks.org/content/121/212/default.aspx | * Mass Elections Data - Boundary data for political divisions from the state’s GIS office. Much of the data, in the form of shapefiles, is available on their web site. Here’s a good collection: http://www.mass.gov/mgis/laylist.htm. There are separate files for congressional, legislative, county, and governor’s council districts. That’s what ethepeople uses to map specific addresses to the correct congressional, state, and county districts. There are a few gotchas at the county level, including, as I recall, the Franklin County DA also covering three towns in an adjoining county, but almost all political divisions except can be figured out from these files. There's also a town clerks association that might be helpful, since they run elections in most of the 351 cities and towns. http://www.newenglandclerks.org/content/121/212/default.aspx | ||
* Teleportd API - Teleportd is a realtime photo search engine aggregating more than 5m public mobile pictures everyday. Teleportd's search engine is accessible through their REST API: http://teleportd.com/api. Using teleportd's API is a great way to add up-to-date visual content to your apps. Example applications using the API: http://www.teleportd.com/detectd (teleportd algorithmic event detector), http://smilesfilm.com/ (Yoko Ono's artistic film project), http://snapquest.me/ (Local image discovery) | |||
=== Communications === | === Communications === | ||