Credits for Who Represents Me?

Shapes

• New York City Council district shapes came from the NYC Department of City Planning, and can be found on the NYC Data Mine site. The City of New York requires this notice:

  The City of New York can not vouch for the accuracy or completeness of data provided by this web site or application or for the usefulness or integrity of the web site or application. This site provides applications using data that has been modified for use from its original source, NYC.gov, the official web site of the City of New York.

• Country shapes came from data provided by Valery Hronusov and Michael Barsky, except for the US and Canada.
• The US country boundary was derived from the US congressional shapes.
• The Canadian country boundary was derived from the Canadian federal riding shapes (see notice below).
• US state, county, municipal, federal legislative, and state legislative shapes are from the U.S. Census Bureau.
• Canadian federal riding shapes came from Elections Canada, which requires this notice:

  © The federal Electoral Districts Boundaries (Representation Order 2003), Elections Canada. All rights reserved. Reproduced with the permission of Elections Canada, Ottawa, Ontario K1A 0M6 Canada (2007).

Legislators

• Most of the U.S. elected officials data is from the wonderful Project Vote Smart
• New York City councilmembers information came from the NYC council web page.
• Information on Canadian MPs came from the House of Commons Web site.
• All other legislator information came from various state legislatures pages and/or Wikipedia.

Tools

• MySQL as the database store,
• PHP with a modified version of libgd on the server-side,
• Javascript to render client-side (and plan to make it pretty using GWT),
• Shapelib, shp2mysql, and
ogr2ogr to massage the data into a usable form.