[Ottawa_users] Volunteer project for Fair Vote Canada

[Tracey P. Lauriault]

your my hero!

On Fri, Apr 29, 2011 at 3:29 PM, Glenn Brauen
<gbrauen at connect.carleton.ca>wrote:

> Hi,
>
> 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.
>
> I produced a KML, so it can be overlaid on Google Earth/Maps to get the
> street references for orientation purposes.
>
> This was a rough demo so the pop-ups defined are just a quick attribute
> dump.
>
> Workflow:
> 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.
>
> 2) Produce a shapefile joining the poll boundaries to 2008 election
> results.  This was done in QGIS.
>
> 3) Play with colouring and export as KML.  For this I used Shape2Earth (
> http://shape2earth.com/default.aspx) which is a plugin for the MapWindow
> GIS (http://www.mapwindow.org/)
>
> The export tools are free but a bit rough and it takes some tinkering.  A
> copy of the generated KML is here:
>
> http://catch22campaign.ca/group/ottawawestnepean/forum/attachment/download?id=5139919%3AUploadedFile%3A16693
>
> Hope this is useful...
>
> Regards,
> Glenn
> ===
> Glenn Brauen, Ph.D. Candidate
> Geomatics and Cartographic Research Centre
> Department of Geography
> Carleton University
> email: glenn at gbrauen.ca
> home page: https://gcrc.carleton.ca/confluence/x/EoAH
> home: (613) 798-7864
> On 2011.04.29, at 1:46 PM, Amos Hayes wrote:
>
>
> 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.
>
> http://gcrc.carleton.ca/cne/proof_of_concepts/elect2004/
>
> --
> Amos Hayes
> Geomatics and Cartographic Research Centre
> Carleton University, Canada
> ahayes at gcrc.carleton.ca
> +1.613.520.2600x8179
>
>
>
> On 2011-04-29, at 12:09 PM, Julien Lamarche wrote:
>
> Bonjour,
>
>
> Julien Lamarche from Fair Vote Canada.  I've hung around a bit as
>
> OSGEO meetings and some of you know me.  I must apologize for my
>
> prolonged absence.
>
>
> If any of you will be compiling election results, I'd love to have a
>
> map on "wasted" votes by poll (votes going to a non-winning candidate)
>
> in the Ottawa - Gatineau area.  Street lines and rivers would be nice
>
> just to situate the polls.
>
>
> Fair Vote Canada's mission is to reform the electoral system to a more
>
> proportional system so that more votes count and the legislature
>
> better represents canadians in their ethnic and gender diversity.  In
>
> the last federal election, 50.7% of all votes did not go to a winning
>
> candidate.   More info at fairvote.ca .  I am Vice-president of the
>
> Ottawa chapter of FVC.
>
>
> Since its a volunteer project for internal use mostly, you would be
>
> free to follow as little or as many requirements as you'd like.
>
> Number of ridings (1 to 10), symbology, one map or multiple maps per
>
> party, etc..  E-mail me for questions, and I'd be happy to discuss it
>
> over phone as well.
>
>
> Julien
>
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Tracey P. Lauriault
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