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‘Cicero Free’ Account: Match Constituents to Elected Officials. For Free!

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cicero_smCicero, our legislative district matching and elected official lookup web service API now provides a truly valuable offer, especially for clients on a budget: a FREE subscription plan.  The Cicero Free account offers users up to 1,000 credits each month which can be used toward any coordinate-based legislative district matching, elected official data lookups and/or map web service requests.  Why use the Cicero Free account?  For instance, your organization might need to feed your website or online application with legislative data or match an online database of member addresses to their elected officials.  Now you can do it through the Cicero API free of charge, and carry out your political advocacy work stress-free.

The Cicero API currently provides legislative district matching and elected official data to public and private web applications for newspapers, election watchdog groups, philanthropic foundations, unions, arts organizations and commercial firms.  An example of an application powered by a Cicero Free account is ‘Our Philadelphia’, a new website built by Common Cause Pennsylvania. The site tracks campaigns contributions in Pennsylvania and will also soon focus on redistricting reform for Philadelphia and the state, tracking the influence of lobbyists, and promoting higher ethical standards for public officials.

Powered by CiceroSubscribers to the Cicero Free account are only required to post a ‘powered by Cicero’ logo on their public-facing website, and be able to make legislative district matching requests to the Cicero API by passing already geocoded address coordinate (latitude/longitude) points to the Cicero API.  Details about the Cicero Free plan are available here.

Stay tuned for more exciting Cicero developments….

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Cicero: New, Lower Price and a Batch District Matching for Quick Turnaround Advocacy Activities

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cicero_200wFor all our readers out there who love our district matching and legislator web API, Cicero, we have two pieces of good news.  First, our move to the ArcGIS Online premium geocoding service earlier this year has enabled us to lower the price of Cicero.  We have also changed our pricing from a subscription model based on the number of hits per month to one based on annual blocks of credits.   Second, we are launching a new Batch Geocoding and District Matching service.

Our new Batch Geocoding and District Matching service uses the same Cicero API we provide for developers, but it enables you to send us a database of addresses (as an Excel spreadsheet for instance), and we’ll return your addresses to you stamped with all of the districts you request as well as any legislator contact information.  And this is all at an affordable price.  The data returned with your addresses can include:

  • Geocoded coordinates for each address
  • Local, State and Federal legislative district id’s for the U.S., Canada, Australia and New Zealand
  • Elected official name, contact information, etc.
  • Non-legislative district id’s such as counties, school districts, watersheds, police districts, etc.

This is just the first step. We are working on more ways to use Cicero including integration with Salesforce.com and an online batch district matching service, so stay tuned for more developments.

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