Closed callumrollo closed 4 years ago
Using geopandas to read the files, I get a csv that is ~ 200 Mb. Shapefiles are pretty high resolution. If we simplify boundaries (removing points) county boundaries will no longer perfectly align. This may or may not be an issue.
@banjtheman what is an appropriate size for the shapefiles?
Here's what I've got so far. Options for 200 Mb, 10 Mb and 2Mb
Start with the 2 Mb one for now and see how that goes
What is the Task
Dataset of county boundary shape files
Why do we want to do this
To make a choropleth map (see Issue #47 )
How can I get started?
Grab the counties shapefiles from here or another source you find.
Definition of Done
Save shapefiles in a format usable in the map from Issue #47 and a reasonable size