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ScraperWiki + DMap

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Date: 2011-05-10

One of the most challenging aspects of DemocracyMap is keeping information from 35,000 local jurisdictions up-to-date and accurate, when no authoritative source exists.

I finally had a chance to get into ScraperWiki, and it didn't take me long to get some interesting results.

It seems stitching a model together might strike the right balance between crowd-sourced and authoritative.

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