Ron Paul Graphs Now Has A Donor Map!

[chowda]

http://ronpaulgraphs.com/donors.html

feedback welcome as always.

[csen]

I still think it'd be useful to have a per capita map like Patrick Ruffini's using all donor state data to date -- you'd only have to save the 50 states and counts, so it wouldn't be a huge data strain.

[chowda]

I still think it'd be useful to have a per capita map like Patrick Ruffini's using all donor state data to date -- you'd only have to save the 50 states and counts, so it wouldn't be a huge data strain.

yeah, that's coming.

[austin356]

WOOOHHH

RPGs did it again!!


What great work you are doing over there. Its a geek's dreamland.

[RP08]

You friggin rock!

I wish I could hire you on my IT team. This is good, good stuffs.

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[steph3n]

WOW! Incredible.

[acstichter]

Hey chowda,

I made the google map last week showing some of the towns and cities where donations were made. ( http://docs.google.com/Doc?id=dzzhbdq_5363ps3 )

I've been researching what's needed to make it automatic and real time and have a solution but not all the know how. I think it would be a really great addition to your site if you want to help make it a reality.

Basically, you parse out the 'city, state' from the LIBERTY feed and then there is a geocoder at:

http://geocoder.us/help/city_state_zip.shtml

The query...
http://geocoder.us/service/csv/geocode?city=san+francisco&state=ca

returns...
37.775, -122.418333333333, San Francisco, San Francisco, CA

Then you stick this data inside a .kml file which is xml format. The google map can show kml files.


Let me know if you're interested, I can provide the kml structure that works best.

~acstichter

[chowda]

ok... now that same page has a dynamic per capita donor map on it... so it's like the map Patrick Ruffini created, except it's dynamic and is a google map :)

Thanks guys! The support has been incredible.. and thanks to everyone who helped spread this around! It's really been linked quite a bit... keep it up!

@acstichter could you email me a sample kml file? I could probably do a map for the donors in the last 24 hours pretty easy... dan at ron paul graphs dot com

[csen]

ok... now that same page has a dynamic per capita donor map on it... so it's like the map Patrick Ruffini created, except it's dynamic and is a google map :)

Thanks guys! The support has been incredible.. and thanks to everyone who helped spread this around! It's really been linked quite a bit... keep it up!

@acstichter could you email me a sample kml file? I could probably do a map for the donors in the last 24 hours pretty easy... dan at ron paul graphs dot com

Awesome...love it.