datamade / just-spaces

🏕 A tool from University City District and DataMade to promote better and more just public spaces
https://justspacesproject.org
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Create geographic widget for selecting CensusAreas #101

Closed jeancochrane closed 5 years ago

jeancochrane commented 5 years ago

Create a form widget allowing a user to select a group of census tracts or blocks to create a CensusArea. The widget should:

We built out some prior art for this kind of "geographic multiselect" in EDI. See:

beamalsky commented 5 years ago

Would you be up for including help text on Census Areas and how to use them in this PR?

jeancochrane commented 5 years ago

I think help text might make more sense in #177, since the help text will primarily be a part of the views and not the widget, right?

beamalsky commented 5 years ago

We'll need help text describing how to use the widget as well as help text explaining how census areas are defined and how to use them, both of which I think you're better positioned to write.

jeancochrane commented 5 years ago

Gotcha. I'm still not sure that text will make sense in the context of this PR, but I'm happy to take responsibility for making sure it gets incorporated once we wire the widget and the models together.

beamalsky commented 5 years ago

Sounds good!