As a developer/designer, I want to understand the limitations of mapping tech and how this relates to designs, so that I can move quickly and focus on the right things

NatHillardUSDS commented 3 years ago

Description We have come across a number of questions so far from design about proposed upcoming specs. We should research these questions so that we can come into discussions better informed and ready to weigh in on proposed next steps

Solution We should enumerate a list of questions in "tasks" below, write out our research findings in this ticket, and come back to design to discuss before specs are finalized for next sprint

Describe alternatives you've considered If either dev or design goes rogue we will have unimplementable or unusable solutions.

Links to user research or other resources N/A

Tasks We need to answer the below questions:

[ ] How can we make block groups more user-friendly as a concept? Can we associate a block group with a "census place" in some way? How difficult would it be do to do so? Is it sufficient to use county?
[ ] What is the best way to query non-geospatial information from our stored tiles and/or geoJSON given our new flat-file-first setup?
[ ] What is the best way to represent tabular data, taking into account paging,
[ ] What is the best way to combine choropleth layers that cover the same geographic space? we can only really have one enabled at a time, but need to talk through implications of this with design

Definition of "Done" We have written out answers to the above questions in this ticket