http://labs.echoditto.com/zip2rep2 Comments for "Son of Zipcode-to-Representative Database" en http://labs.echoditto.com/zip2rep2 <p>Remember <a href="http://www.echoditto.com/zip2rep">this guy</a>? Yeah, I barely do, too. But way back in 2006 I put some of the lingering knowledge I had during an earlier job together with a newfound passion for writing horrible rats' nests of Perl code. The result was a set of scripts that could scrape the rather lame HTML interface to House Information Service's zipcode+9-to-congressional-database matching service.</p> <p>I'm sure my scripts haven't aged all that well, but <a href="http://www.aaronsw.com/">Aaron Swartz</a> was kind enough to take up the torch and share a <a href="http://www.aaronsw.com/2002/zip2rep/">set of Python scripts</a> he coded to accomplish the same thing. Thanks, Aaron!</p> <p>Those of you looking for zipcode-to-congressional-district matching would do well to check those scripts out. You might also want to follow the threads from <a href="http://twitter.com/tones/statuses/774590563">this tweet</a>, in which exoDitto Tim Jones asks the LazyWeb for other solutions to the problem.</p> http://labs.echoditto.com/zip2rep2#comments congress geocoding zip2rep zipcodes Tue, 25 Mar 2008 07:50:00 -0700 Tom 70 at http://labs.echoditto.com