Look up relevant races by postal code

[pnijjar]

Here is a wishlist item that might already exist: can we type in a postal code and then have a list of the relevant races come up?

• What ward am I in? What city am I in?
• What regional council seats do I vote for, if any?
• What school board races are relevant to me? (We might allow users to limit the races to the school board that applies to them, but I have privacy concerns about this.)

Along with the list of races it would be good to link to the candidate lists for these pages (which are hosted on the assorted municipal websites -- I do not think they need to be compiled here).

I am tempted to suggest that we use this information to figure out the parts of the region that are most interested in the WRVotes website. However, we should make it clear to users that we are tracking this information if we do this, and we should make the results public.

It is not clear to me that there will be much demand for this, but given the large number of races during a municipal election, there might be.

[pnijjar]

Nominatim does not do a good job of postal-code only lookups, but does a reasonable job of addresses. I am closing (abandoning) this, because Nominatim will be "good enough".