[OSGeo Africa] Election maps

[Tim Sutton]

Hi Adi

On Sat, Mar 23, 2013 at 6:03 PM, Adi Eyal <adi at burgercom.co.za> wrote:
> Hi All
>
> I've been fiddling around the election data from the last municipal
> elections and I've put together a graphic showing which wards were contested
> and which are strongholds. I defined contested as there being a less than
> 10% difference in vote counts between the first and second place winners.
>
> I'm by no means a cartographer and this is one of my first projects so I was
> hoping for comments about how one might improve the maps. I guess the one
> problem is that even though you know that a ward is contested, you don't
> know by how much. Also (and i'm not sure this is important) you don't know
> from the map what the individual wards are - only the municipality they are
> in. Finally, I don't know where most of these municipalities are situated so
> perhaps so sort of contextual map showing them in relation to the rest of
> the country might be useful. Of course all of these things are possible but
> might not be easy to achieve while still maintaining an uncluttered design.
>
> Any advice would be appreciated. The small version of the image can be found
> here: http://za.okfn.org/2013/03/23/battle-for-local-municipalities/. The
> complete poster is also available as pdf linked to on the site.
>
> Hopefully this sort of question is not frowned upon in this forum (if it
> helps, everything here was produced with open source tools :)).
>

Great project!

Is the source data you used available somewhere publicly? If so can
you provide a link to it?

Regards

Tim


> Thanks
> Adi
>
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