happyjack27 / autoredistrict

Programmatically makes a fair congressional district map (prevents gerrymandering)
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Program not properly downloading shapefiles #210

Open viocar opened 4 years ago

viocar commented 4 years ago

Version: Every version I tried, including latest OS: Windows 7 Home Premium Java version: 8u221

When attempting to download shapefile data, the program seems to simply skip over it, and instead places a file called vtds.zip in the folder where the vtd is supposed to go. It downloads the block_pop and block_centroids data correctly, but then throws an exception trying to load the non-existent shapefile. If you manually download the vtd .zip file from the census site and extract it to the folder where the program expects the shapefile to be, the program will run mostly correctly, but it will throw an exception trying to read the county_level_stats .txt file, but will still seem to work. I'm not sure how to repair the program to work correctly, and manually downloading each vtd from the census site seems very tedious.