Riverside East Rotary – Doing Good and Having Fun
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Riverside East Rotary – Doing Good and Having Fun
Description: a blog by nick o'neill
a blog by nick o'neill
I’m a big fan of minimizing external dependencies and one of the moments forming my opinion on this was dealing with mapping user location to Congressional district for 5 Calls . This is a key part of 5 Calls: you enter an address or zip code and we return a set of representatives for various levels of government, including their phone numbers and various metadata that’s useful to you.
The very first version of 5 Calls used the Google Civic API to fetch this data which worked pretty well and included a geocoder so we could pass addresses, zip codes, etc and get back a description of the federal representatives for that point. This worked OK and there was a generous free tier but it was still an external API call adding to request latency and the service was less than responsive to changes in representative information, especially one-off changes that happen outside of election cycles.
Riverside East Rotary – Doing Good and Having Fun
Agave & Rye Liberty Center | Order Online
Riverside East Rotary – Doing Good and Having Fun