[OSGeo Africa] IEC Voting Station Finder

[Adi Eyal]

Thanks Suzanne

I'm actually looking for voting districts which are one level down. They're
not political boundaries so the Municipal Demarcation Board won't be the
correct source. I think that Voting Districts are specific to IEC.


On 6 November 2013 18:05, Adi Eyal <adi at code4sa.org> wrote:

> Thanks Suzanne
>
> I'm actually looking for voting districts which are one level down.
> They're not political boundaries so the Municipal Demarcation Board won't
> be the correct source. I think that Voting Districts are specific to IEC.
>
> Adi
>
>
> On 6 November 2013 17:19, suzanne grindley <suzanne_grindley at yahoo.com>wrote:
>
>> Here is a website for the Wards. Has shapefiles that can be downloaded
>> for wards, municipal areas etc.
>>
>> http://www.demarcation.org.za/
>>
>> Look under the download tab.
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>   On Wednesday, November 6, 2013 4:03 PM, Adi Eyal <adi at burgercom.co.za>
>> wrote:
>>   There are a couple of voting stations within a ward. According to the
>> IEC website, your voting station is allocated according to your voting
>> district [1]. There should be a shape file for those voting districts but
>> IEC only makes a slippy map available which can't be reverse-engineered.
>>
>> [1]
>> http://www.elections.org.za/content/Voters-Roll/About-voting-districts-and-stations/
>>
>> Adi
>>
>>
>> On 6 November 2013 15:48, Chris Berens <chris at mapland.co.za> wrote:
>>
>> Would that not be the Wards you're needing?
>>
>>
>>
>>
>> On 6 November 2013 12:14, Adi Eyal <adi at burgercom.co.za> wrote:
>>
>>  Hi
>>
>> I would like to replicate the IEC's voting station finder -
>> http://maps.elections.org.za/vsfinder/
>>
>> Does anyone know whether the voting district shape files are available
>> anywhere?
>>
>> Thanks
>> Adi
>>
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> Director
> Code for South Africa
> Promoting informed decision-making
>
> phone: +27 78 014 2469
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> linkedin: http://za.linkedin.com/pub/dir/Adi/Eyal
> web: http://www.code4sa.org
> twitter: @soapsudtycoon
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