Archive for November 4th, 2008
Battleground State Maps
We’ve thrown together some state maps for some of the states that might into play tonight:
Simplified State Maps — Example: Ohio
We’ve got some simplified state-level maps now available, like the one for Ohio seen above. If you like what you see, just copy this code:
<iframe src="http://votereport.us/reports/map?state=OH&clean=1" frameborder="0" class="stream" width="535" height="500" scrolling="no" ></iframe>
And paste it into your site, replacing the “OH” for whatever the code is for the state whose map you happen to be after.
Nathan Heeded the Call to “Grab the Data and Go”
Over on our “See it in action” page, we posted links to all the data feeds that power twittervotereport.com, in addition to a couple of alternate ways of feeding the #votereport reports. Those feeds are listed under a noted saying “developers, grab the data and go!” Well, Nathan Freitas, saw that and said, well, all right. Now, Nathan built the #votereport Android app several day back, but he hasn’t since had the time to work in close contact with the small knot of developers who have been building out some of the core tools. Nathan, though, popped back into our Google Group late this afternoon and said, in effect, “here, I made this“– where “this” was an interface for reports that sorts and displays the data in a bunch of different way. No one knew what Nathan was up to, but no one had to. Armed with a Geo-JSON feed, Nathan had everything he needed to make a huge contribution to the project.
That was only possible because this group has by design been an open efforts focused on open standards, from inception. And now we have some rather awesome and powerful visualizations as a result. Must be a lesson in there somewhere…
