Mapping the political landscape \\ Ruby on Rails in action with a quick mashup
jafoca | September 24, 2008
Recently I have been working with the ruby on rails guru Daniel Morrison on a rails app for one of our web clients. Daniel along with Brandon and Brian form Collective Idea, a ruby on rails house that also runs Sessions, RoR and other training sessions in Holland, MI that I attended a couple of months ago.
Anyhow, Collective Idea produced the open source (free) Ruby on Rails plugin called acts_as_geocodable (free to download/instal from github), which we were implementing for the project I am developing.
While working on that, Daniel showed me the quick google maps mashup he produced over the past weekend to map political signs. The basic idea is to map where you see Obama or McCain yard signs to get an idea of the overall political composition of your neighborhood. Pretty cool, and a good showcase of acts_as_geocodable
Map your neighborhood’s political signs here.
UPDATE: signs.collectiveidea.com is now yardvote.com
