Professional Documents
Culture Documents
Elections
Representatives
Administrative Areas
+25 million
queries on voter information in the United States
And others
Are using it for many different purposes
First ever interoperable identifiers for political jurisdictions, enabling joins across disparate civic datasets
ocd-division/country:<country_code>[/<type>:<type_id>]+ ocd-division/country:us/state:nc/cd:2 ocd-division/country:us/district:dc/anc:4a/section:8
Standard XML Specification for polling places Map locations to administrative and electoral geographies Administrative and electoral geographies to polling places
www.votinginfoproject.org
153,676
Polling Places
8,398
Early Vote Locations
39,035
Candidates
600
sites embedded our Voter Information Tool
4,065
candidate twitter handles
23 million
Voter Information Queries
238 63 89 54 8
Electoral Committee
Google Engineer
(Local) Government
. . .
Transport Agencies
(Local) Government
What do we need?
Geographies, persons and processes
Geographic Administrative and political geographies (structure and shapes) Polling station locations Candidates Ballots Profiles Financing Process Registration Results
Google Confidential and Proprietary
Electoral Committee
(Local) Government
. . .
Timely
Standardised
Open
developers.google.com/civic-information
Questions?