Mapping Polling Stations with import.io and Silk

Cardiff Council publish a list of polling stations as a PDF.

Cardiff Hyperlocals wanted to map this data and present it in a more accessible format.

They used a tool called import.io to scrape the data from the PDF into a spreadsheet.

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They then used a service called Silk to geocode the address column and map the polling stations.

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This map can be embedded in another website and the data can be filtered by electoral division.