Last night I uploaded Version 2.0.2. This fixes a couple of bugs with 2.0.1 and introduces a new feature that I hope you like… Change Colors!
You can now change CD colors and change the opaqueness of the CDs essentially making them lighter or darker)! I also made the Old CD lines a little thicker and changed the county line color.
Launch Page
Please let me know what you think. Also, check out the Help page for lots of good information.
This will be all the changes for a little while, unless a bad bug is found. I’m working on a plan for next year and will let you all know about that when it’s ready.
Thanks!
I’m playing around with “assign quads,” which seems to be working again. It does have some strange behavior, though. For example, when I try to assign quads to 203 districts in Pennsylvania (size of the state House), a huge percentage of the districts simply aren’t assigned anything at all. Meanwhile most of the rest are way out of population range.
Not a big priority, I would guess, but it’s hard to see how the feature could be useful when that happens.
Thanks for the update.
I would like to be able to turn off voting district boundaries so I can see what color urban areas are when zoomed out.
This is an improvement that I’ve been hoping to see for a while.
Now, I have a question about the racial data provided for California under the “Test Data.” It appears to be derived from 2000 Census information, instead of the late decade estimates used to derive the rest of the population estimates for the test data. Naturally this creates some pretty big problems when you know that, say, there are plenty more than enough Hispanics living close enough together in Western Riverside County to create a Hispanic-majority district (and you’ve done this in the app already, but without test data), but this can’t be recreated with test data because racial estimates are stuck in 2000.
Someone mentioned on here that this was a known bug, so I was wondering if there were any plans to work on it or if we would just have to wait for the 2010 data to come in. I was also wondering if there was anything that I or anyone else could do to help fix the problem if it’s not too deep into the DRA skunkworks?
Could you install city boundries? They are really important when I do my maps because I want to make sure I do not split too many cities. Although the street view map tells me the names of the cities, I want to know exactly where their boundries are.
Great job. Are SSPers close to providing partisan data for any new states?
I have a macbook but does anyone know how to save your progress? I am trying to save as a DRF file but don’t know what application to open it up with?
Is there anyone working on the precinct data for FL right now?
I’m in the end of the work for a 53-0 map for California (I know where are the limits for all the map and only rest some little details) and I only can thank you for all your work. Still it is a lot of work but without you would be a lot more.
I will bid Arkansas without break the counties, and when get available Illinois for a 18-0 map finding the limits. They are key states for the democrats.