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During an election, there should be a central place to see
-My constituency (boundary data)
-My ward
-The authority running the election
-How I register to vote
-Who is standing for the election
-Where my polling station is
All of the data is available - but it's held across different departments, separate websites, in PDFs, and sometimes behind paywalls (Ordnance Survey).
I've built a demo using some of the available data at http://voteuk.shkspr.mobi/
I'd really like an authoritative API - to much is out of date or disparate.
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Submitted: 17/07/2009 by CountCulure
Openly Local is a new project to develop an open and unified way of accessing Local Government information, particular democratic processes. Information on councils, councillors, committees and committee mettings is accessible as HTML, XML, json and RDFa, and you can subscribe to a council's meeting calendar through online or electronic calendars, or even to the calendar of a particular councillor. |
If you've used the Jobcenter Plus website recently, you'll know what a struggle it is to use, so how about create a API for the job database so that developers can create apps that would make it easier to use.
A API would also let other job websites to parse the data from the Jobcenter Plus database onto their own sites so the end user gets to see more job opportunities.
Alternatively, you could just sort out the Jobcenter Plus site to not be the mess of table-based design that it is today.
