How is the data being collected?

experimentsindemocracy / barton

A repository of political wisdom. Structured contact details for every elected official in Australia.

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Open bxjx opened 9 years ago

bxjx commented 9 years ago

May I ask how you're sourcing the data? Are you scraping or updating manually?

Cheers!

davekinkead commented 9 years ago

Unfortunately it's manual - there is no consistency between states or councils :(

bxjx commented 9 years ago

Fair enough! Great effort btw!

I'm actually at the OpenAustralia hackfest and we were looking at writing a scraper state MPs and I was curious.