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Open Government Hackathon: Chicago, March 29-31

by James Turk

technology

Feb 17, 2009 1:12 pm

Sunlight Labs is proud to be hosting the first ever Open Government Hackathon, March 29-31 in Chicago as part of PyCon.

This will be a 48 hour sprint where developers that are interested in contributing to an open source project that will free or otherwise enhance government data can gather to brainstorm and hack on various projects related to government data.

polipoly – A tool for dealing with district boundary polygons

by James Turk

technology

Dec 10, 2007 10:00 am

Finding out what congressional district an address falls within can be a difficult problem. One solution is to use the polipoly library that we have open sourced to check if a point falls within a polygon boundary of a congressional district.

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