NYSenate Links no longer work

[lavingiasa]

Steps to reproduce:

• Go to https://boundaries.beta.nyc/?map=ss&dist=13
• Click the "Visit district webpage" link

Expected behavior:

• It takes you to the district webpage for district 13

Observed behavior:

• It takes you to https://www.nysenate.gov/

I'm not sure when this broke, but this might not be solvable by this tool because the nysenate website seems to be redirecting.

[lavingiasa]

Note: It does look like the link is being handled somehow because https://www.nysenate.gov/district**s**/28 takes you to a 404, but the district link redirects you.

[evadecker]

Hi @lavingiasa, sorry for the delay here! It does look like district pages on the nysenate.gov site no longer exist, and I wasn't able to find new pages for districts. I filed an issue in the website's repo and we'll see what we hear!

[lavingiasa]

Thank you so much! I hope they are able to fix it soon :)

On Fri, Oct 27, 2023 at 1:09 AM Eva Decker @.***> wrote:

Hi @lavingiasa https://github.com/lavingiasa, sorry for the delay here! It does look like district pages on the nysenate.gov site no longer exist, and I wasn't able to find new pages for districts. I filed an issue https://github.com/nysenate/NYSenate.gov-Website-D9/issues/41 in the website's repo and we'll see what we hear!

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[routinet]

Hello again,

I followed up on the issue file in nysenate, but thought you might be interested in an alternative.

NYSenate.gov sources its map data from another of our tools: SAGE (Senate Address Geocoding Engine). For districts, the map is embedded from a call to, e.g., //pubgeo.nysenate.gov/map/senate/29?x=850&y=696&sd=29. In my brief testing, the query string parameters do not seem to be necessary. My colleague guesses they are resolution parameters, and a redundant district marker. In any case, it may be worth your while to go direct to the same source we use.

[evadecker]

Thanks @routinet! We already have the geojson for displaying senate boundaries on the map; what we're missing is a page that displays information about that district, who the senator is, etc.

[evadecker]

@lavingiasa A fix was merged into nysenate.gov: https://github.com/nysenate/NYSenate.gov-Website-D9/pull/46 and the links for Senate Districts are available once again! 🎉

https://github.com/BetaNYC/nyc-boundaries/assets/4117920/2ae6daa2-acfe-416c-b54f-b535a93a02b6

[lavingiasa]

Fantastic! Thanks so much Eva for following up and to the contributors of the other repo for fixing it

On Mon, Nov 13, 2023, 19:08 Eva Decker @.***> wrote:

@lavingiasa https://github.com/lavingiasa A fix was merged into nysenate.gov: nysenate/NYSenate.gov-Website-D9#46 https://github.com/nysenate/NYSenate.gov-Website-D9/pull/46 and the links for Senate Districts are available once again! 🎉

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[evadecker]

Of course! Thanks for reporting it and please file issues for any other problems you come across or requests for improvements :)