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• AddressBase as a canonical base dataset - In 2017, we attempted this. It didn't work out. These are the notes we made at the time, but some things have changed since.

🌍 Ecosystem

WhereDoIVote relies on or interacts with:

• https://github.com/DemocracyClub/polling_deploy - Deployment scripts for WDIV
• https://github.com/DemocracyClub/wdiv-s3-trigger - Lambda trigger for processing data uploaded via /uploads and performing checks
• https://github.com/wdiv-scrapers/ - Scrapers which harvest polling station data from councils who publish their data via a portal/API.
• https://github.com/wdiv-scrapers/data - Harvested data from councils who publish their data via a portal/API lives here. Import scripts that extend BaseGitHubImporter import from here.
• https://github.com/DemocracyClub/uk-geo-utils - Models and import scripts for AddressBase, ONSPD, ONSUD