Making a local politician tracker for Chicago.
Basically a Chicago clone of this:
Basically a Chicago clone of this:
Type in your address.
We figure out the coordinates.
We place those coordinates in all their relevant political "zones" (neighborhood, district, ward etc.) and give you maps of what they look like, just like the Times.
We show you everyone representing you in those zones with links to the homepage, wikipedia page, twitter results, flickr results, youtube results etc
We show you a newsfeed of their appearances in mainstream press.
Should be cool.
Looks like we're going to build it at the eventual live URL so I'd rather not give that out just yet. My buddy's doing all the heavy lifting on this one. I'm just tracking down shape files and representative listings and so forth.