<html><head></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; ">Hi,<br><br>I was actually playing around with a similar but different idea, using the poll results from 2008 for Ottawa West-Nepean. Different because I twisted the equations to show the cushion enjoyed by the leading candidate at each poll and coloured the layer accordingly, differentiating between Cons vs non-Cons in computing the cushion.<br><br>I produced a KML, so it can be overlaid on Google Earth/Maps to get the street references for orientation purposes.<br><br>This was a rough demo so the pop-ups defined are just a quick attribute dump.<br><br>Workflow:<br>1) Convert the poll boundaries available from Elections Canada to the coordinate system used in Google Maps/Earth (EPSG: 4326). I used ogr2ogr from GDAL to do this.<br><br>2) Produce a shapefile joining the poll boundaries to 2008 election results. This was done in QGIS.<br><br>3) Play with colouring and export as KML. For this I used Shape2Earth (<a href="http://shape2earth.com/default.aspx">http://shape2earth.com/default.aspx</a>) which is a plugin for the MapWindow GIS (<a href="http://www.mapwindow.org/">http://www.mapwindow.org/</a>)<br><br>The export tools are free but a bit rough and it takes some tinkering. A copy of the generated KML is here: <div><a href="http://catch22campaign.ca/group/ottawawestnepean/forum/attachment/download?id=5139919%3AUploadedFile%3A16693">http://catch22campaign.ca/group/ottawawestnepean/forum/attachment/download?id=5139919%3AUploadedFile%3A16693</a><br><br>Hope this is useful...<br><br>Regards,<br>Glenn<br>===<br>Glenn Brauen, Ph.D. Candidate<br>Geomatics and Cartographic Research Centre<br>Department of Geography<br>Carleton University<br>email: <a href="mailto:glenn@gbrauen.ca">glenn@gbrauen.ca</a><br>home page: <a href="https://gcrc.carleton.ca/confluence/x/EoAH">https://gcrc.carleton.ca/confluence/x/EoAH</a><br>home: (613) 798-7864<br><div><div>On 2011.04.29, at 1:46 PM, Amos Hayes wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><blockquote type="cite"><div><br>Might want to have a look at this. It was developed by a PhD candidate at our lab. Might be re-usable for what you are trying to accomplish. It explores the use of sound to "show" what isn't shown on your typical election map.<br><br>http://gcrc.carleton.ca/cne/proof_of_concepts/elect2004/<br><br>--<br>Amos Hayes<br>Geomatics and Cartographic Research Centre<br>Carleton University, Canada<br>ahayes@gcrc.carleton.ca<br>+1.613.520.2600x8179<br><br><br><br>On 2011-04-29, at 12:09 PM, Julien Lamarche wrote:<br><br><blockquote type="cite">Bonjour,<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">Julien Lamarche from Fair Vote Canada. I've hung around a bit as<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">OSGEO meetings and some of you know me. I must apologize for my<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">prolonged absence.<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">If any of you will be compiling election results, I'd love to have a<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">map on "wasted" votes by poll (votes going to a non-winning candidate)<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">in the Ottawa - Gatineau area. Street lines and rivers would be nice<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">just to situate the polls.<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">Fair Vote Canada's mission is to reform the electoral system to a more<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">proportional system so that more votes count and the legislature<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">better represents canadians in their ethnic and gender diversity. In<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">the last federal election, 50.7% of all votes did not go to a winning<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">candidate. More info at fairvote.ca . I am Vice-president of the<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">Ottawa chapter of FVC.<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">Since its a volunteer project for internal use mostly, you would be<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">free to follow as little or as many requirements as you'd like.<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">Number of ridings (1 to 10), symbology, one map or multiple maps per<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">party, etc.. E-mail me for questions, and I'd be happy to discuss it<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">over phone as well.<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">Julien<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">----<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">Sign the ***Declaration of Voters Rights***: http://is.gd/i34Fb<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">Signer la ***Déclaration des droits des électeurs***: http://is.gd/i34Fb<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">_______________________________________________<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">Ottawa_users mailing list<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">Ottawa_users@lists.osgeo.org<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/ottawa_users<br></blockquote><br>_______________________________________________<br>Ottawa_users mailing list<br>Ottawa_users@lists.osgeo.org<br>http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/ottawa_users<br></div></blockquote></div><br></div></body></html>