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district-genius

A work-in-progress at the Metric Geometry and Gerrymandering Group (MGGG)

Annotate parts of a district to show what neighborhoods are in and out

Find out if your district might be gerrymandered

You can look up any district with this URL format: https://district-genius.herokuapp.com/map/HI-1

For single-district states (?) https://district-genius.herokuapp.com/map/WY-0

Overview

Look up your district boundaries (address search)

This part of your district boundary is particularly interesting. Why are these blocks in and other blocks out?

Click this line to read a comment (hoping to recruit some expert comments on these!)

Select another part of a district border, and make your own question or comment.

Database schema

A User must be logged in to leave a Comment.

A Comment contains geo, text, and author information for a message left by a User.

A Map is created for each group of comments (for example, we have a Map for each district, and could add a Map for each organization which is interested in working on a district)

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Setup

npm install
export SESSION=secret_key
export API_KEY=google_api_key_authorized_for_civic_information
mongod &
npm start

License

Open source, MIT license

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