Address-electorate lookup

[vteague]

At the moment, it just generates a random electorate for demo purposes. It needs to use the lookup services from the various states, such as this one from Vic:
https://maps.vec.vic.gov.au/

Unfortunately, the AEC's https://electorate.aec.gov.au/ is not as helpful, because some postcodes do not uniquely identify an electorate.

[vteague]

Update: Electoral boundaries are openly available, see:

https://data.gov.au/search?page=1&q=electoral%20boundaries and
https://data.gov.au/search?organisation=Australian%20Electoral%20Commission&q=electoral%20boundaries

1. Download and store these resources.

2. Either

• use the device's location, if available and permitted, or
• use some third-party service (Google or https://addressfinder.com.au/) to translate their address into lat/long coords.

3. Calculate which state & federal electorates they're in.
4. Store locally.

[vteague]

For 2, Possibly https://nationalmap.gov.au/ is the best. (Just have to figure out how to extract the location.)

[vteague]

Alternatively, https://geoscape.com.au/data/g-naf/ gives online translation from address to lat/long coords. Not sure whether this is usable in an app.

The entire dataset is publicly available:
https://data.gov.au/data/dataset/19432f89-dc3a-4ef3-b943-5326ef1dbecc

but too large to include with the app.