This is NOT what democracy looks like!
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angledgeHa ha! Data processing is finally finished for the 108th Congressional district map of Pennsylvania. 480,979 census blocks, sorted into 19 Congressional districts. Now that my data is in place, time to start getting the algorithms running ....
Here's a GIF, created in MS Paint from a TIFF exported from ArcMap.
Here's a PNG, created in MS Paint from a TIFF exported from ArcMap.
Here's a GIF, created in MS Paint from a TIFF exported from ArcMap.
Here's a PNG, created in MS Paint from a TIFF exported from ArcMap.
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Re: just for local interest
Date: 2004-06-25 07:26 pm (UTC)In auto insurance, the whole state is divided into "territories" that are gerrymandered by the insurance industry to group highest risk areas together. In Pennsylvania, this results in things like this description of what comprises territory 01:
It's almost impossible to know what territory you live in. Imagine you were planning to buy a house and wanted to live in one of the "cheaper" territories. Good luck.
In California and a few other states, the people got fed up with this crap and made them change it all to a zipcode based system. As a result, boundary lines are a bit jagged.