We’ve been running a free public lookup service based on our Cicero API for the past year or so.  It enabled people to enter an address in the U.S., Canada, Australia and New Zealand and display the elected officials that represented them.  We’ve been working on an updated version and launched it on Friday.  This new version adds some features and highlights some of the changes we’ve made to Cicero in the past year including:

• Watershed boundaries for the U.S. at the HUC-2, HUC-4, HUC-6 and HUC-8 levels
• County boundaries for the U.S.
• School district boundaries for the U.S.
• New cities
• We’ve changed our map boundary display services to that it can be more easily mashed up with GoogleMaps, Microsoft Virtual Earth, ArcGIS Server or other web mapping systems. We’ve also added transparency, color and boundary styling control.
• Changed the layout so it’s easier to read and will display faster
• Did some re-skinning of the graphic design

And we are adding more data all the time.  We’re currently at almost 10,000 legislative boundaries, more than 11,000 elected officials and almost 15,000 non-legislative boundaries (watersheds, police districts, etc.) I’m pretty excited about the new public version of Cicero and we are continuing to think about new ways we can enhance the data and highlight capabilities of the API.  Do you have ideas?  What’s the next city, state or country we should add?  Are there other features we should add to the API or the Live verson? Check it out and let us know.

Screenshot of Cicero Live