I knew it would not take much time for the very good programmers out there to start to make some really good use of the recently-released Elections Canada polling division shape files, and Conservative blogger Stephen Taylor has demonstrated he's no slouch in the mapping wow department.

He has taken the polling division results and geographic information from the shape files and built an application for Google Earth, demo'ed in a YouTube HD video here. He's also planning to make the information available as an API (that's programming lingo for "shareable to other programmers").

Hats off to Taylor for a beautiful demo and a very solid contribution. I'll be adding some Google Maps functionality to the Pundits' Guide soon myself, but Taylor has definitely set the standard here. Bravo Stephen!

Labels: Data Analysis, Elections Canada Data