geo2gov

geo2gov app

Description: The geo2gov API is an online service that will take a location description in a wide range of formats, and map that location to the government.

It can determine jurisdictions, electorates, representatives, where your location is defined demographically at each layer within the Census, and provides identifier maps so you can link into other websites such as the Federal Parlimentary website, OpenAustralia, MyMP and more.

geo2gov can be easily incorporated directly into other mashups as a search or address box, and can be deployed as a virtual applicance locally in addition to the regular online Amazon EC2 cloud-hosted service.

Data source(s) used from data.gov.au: Commonwealth Electoral Boundaries (Archive – February 2009)

Other data sources: Australian Standard Geographical Classification (ASGC) Digital Boundaries (Intercensal), Census of Population and Housing: Census Geographic Areas Digital Boundaries, NSW Department of Local Government’s list of Mayors, Tally Room Maps

Categories: Community, Geography, Government, Society