Dave's Redistricting Version 2.2 now has full support for Legislative and County redistricting. This means you can create maps for upper and lower house legislative districts, complete with seeing the old districts and appropriate labeling. You can also set up lower house districts to have non-uniform population targets.
For county redistricting you can select a county and get district population targets based solely on that county's population.
And I've added a few additional features.
So while you are celebrating our victory in NY-26, have fun drawing some maps. More below the fold.
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Legislative and County Redistricting
- You can make a map for LDs (legislative lower house), SDs (legislative upper house) and CCDs (county council).
- You can see old LDs and SDs.
- You can switch between CD, LD, SD and CCD scenarios with the Change Scenario button.
- You can save them all in 1 DRF.
- You can convert on load a CD map you built (that was really an LD or SD map) into an LD or SD map.
- You can create LDs with unequal population by telling the app how many legislators represent each LD (where each may be different) and the app will set population targets accordingly. Or you can set the population targets for each LD directly.
- You can create districts for multiple counties in a state. For each county scenario, only the voting districts in that county are shown and colorable, and the population targets are set using the county's population.
Other New Features
- You can do Color By Population and Color By Election for only unassigned voting districts (so you can see the partial CDs/LDs you've made at the same time). The check box for this is on the Tools panel.
- You can turn off labels on old CDs/LDs. The check box for this is on the Tools panel.
- If you've made changes to your maps that you have not saved, doing Open, Close, select state or change #CDs/LDs will ask you to confirm to ensure you don't accidently lose your work. (Closing the browser will still not warn you.)
Please report any bugs here or to redistricting@gardow.com.
Also, a link at the bottom of the Launch Page allows you to use Version 2.1 if you have problems with 2.2.