data-project

Data Representation and Querying Project 2015

Padraic Wade

Introduction

This project provides the design and documentation for the dataset "Dataset title" which is available at data.gov.ie

About the data

This dataset was received in Comma Separated Values (CSV) format, and was downloaded from Galway County Polling Stations. The CSV file contains 253 rows, the first being a header row with the names of each field. There are six values on each line, which are as follows:

- **chords**: the co-ordanates of the polling station separated into X and Y coordinates.
- **school**: the name of the school.
- **BuildingID**: the id of the school building used for refernece in other softwares and databases.
- **BuildingName**: the name of the building.
- **BuildingAdd**:  the address of the building.
- **Locality**: The locality of the building.

List of locations of polling stations

You can get a list of polling stations in a specific area using the GET method at the following URL: http://pollapi.com/region/[region] where you replace [region] with the region. An example of a response would be:

{
        "LOCALITY": "DUNMORE",
        "School": "Dunmore N.S. No. 2",
        "ID": "80430959",
        "BUILDING_I": "80430959",
        "ORGANISATI": " ",
        "BUILDING_N": "SAINT NICHOLAS NATIONAL SCHOOL",
        "ADDR_LIN00": "SION HILL",
        "ADDR_LIN01": "DUNMORE",
        "ADDR_LIN02": "CO. GALWAY",
}

List of polling stations by id no

You can get a list of polling stations in a specific area using the GET method at the following URL: http://pollapi.com/id/[id] where you replace [id] with the id. An example of a response would be:

{
        "ID": "80430959",
        "School": "Dunmore N.S. No. 2",
        "BUILDING_I": "80430959",
        "ORGANISATI": " ",
        "BUILDING_N": "SAINT NICHOLAS NATIONAL SCHOOL",
        "ADDR_LIN00": "SION HILL",
        "ADDR_LIN01": "DUNMORE",
        "ADDR_LIN02": "CO. GALWAY",
}

search by school name

You can get a list of polling stations in a specific area using the GET method at the following URL: http://pollapi.com/school/[school] where you replace [school] with the school name. An example of a response would be:

{
        "School": "Dunmore N.S. No. 2",
        "LOCALITY": "DUNMORE",
        "ID": "80430959",
        "BUILDING_I": "80430959",
        "ORGANISATI": " ",
        "BUILDING_N": "SAINT NICHOLAS NATIONAL SCHOOL",
        "ADDR_LIN00": "SION HILL",
        "ADDR_LIN01": "DUNMORE",
        "ADDR_LIN02": "CO. GALWAY",
}

search by school address

You can get a list of polling stations in a specific area using the GET method at the following URL: http://pollapi.com/schoolAdd/[schoolAdd] where you replace [schoolAdd] with the school address. An example of a response would be:

{
        "School": "Dunmore N.S. No. 2",
        "BUILDING_N": "SAINT NICHOLAS NATIONAL SCHOOL",
        "ADDR_LIN00": "SION HILL",
        "ADDR_LIN01": "DUNMORE",
        "ADDR_LIN02": "CO. GALWAY",
}