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OpenElectionData / election-transcriber

:pencil2: Election Transcription Interface built with @Datamade
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Geography dropdowns #21

Open evz opened 9 years ago

evz commented 9 years ago

Make a way to pre-populate a dropdown menu with a listing (or listings) of geographies that are perhaps parsed out of a CSV or JSON blob. It's also possible that we can get this information from the scraper (once we get to it)

derekeder commented 9 years ago

Let's handle this for now by allowing admins to set a field to a 'select' type and populate options in a dropdown.

derekeder commented 9 years ago

@philbrondyke with the scraper fetching metadata directly from each country's election website, we have the geography hierarchy automatically populated. Given this, would we still need geography dropdowns?

philbrondyke commented 9 years ago

@msbrown and I are planning to discuss tomorrow but we may not need them at this point.

philbrondyke commented 9 years ago

If the image ID is a part of the geographic unit is captured on the back end then we agree that we may not transcribers to select these units from a dropdown. We would still need people to capture the polling station number . We would also be looking to generate these geographies on the export for sorting.

It's important, though, to keep the option of a field type box that could be customized. For example if polling units are divided into male and female (like many in the Middle East) it wouldn't necessarily show up in the path id on the EC site but would be critical information to transcribe.