Dave's redistricting app makes prettier maps than mine. Between Dave and I we now have competition in the independent redistricting application market. I must close the rendering gap!
I figure if I add county outlines, metropolitan area highlights, and maybe interstate highways I'll have enough landmarks for people to understand their states by. Oh, and I need to render water right too.
Here are county outlines:
Here are the "places" known to the census in the current TIGER/Shapefile:
These are all additions to the new Java renderer that parses the shapefiles. I think I'm leaning towards making a downloadable desktop Java application for doing hand-redistricting. It might also be doable as Applet or web-start delivery.
2010-03-24
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Improve their redistricting application to compete with Dave's by adding county outlines, highlighting metropolitan areas, including interstate highways, and rendering water features. They contemplate delivering the upgraded application as a downloadable desktop Java application or via Applet or web-start.
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