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uwescience / DSSG2017-Equity

Free and open-source mapping tools and data workflow for visualizing neighborhood data
https://uwescience.github.io/DSSG2017-Equity/
MIT License
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Upload geometry as GeoJSON #3

Closed bernease closed 7 years ago

bernease commented 7 years ago

Upload geometry as GeoJSON (Hillary already uploaded bgs to GD), simplify shape at mapshaper.org

bernease commented 7 years ago

@hillary-dawkins, a cool tool to use to simplify the GeoJSON file is http://mapshaper.org/. You just upload your GeoJSON file to the webpage and can really reduce the filesize (making the website load faster).

Let me know if you have any questions about it!

bernease commented 7 years ago

We discussed offline limiting the geometry to the City of Seattle.

I'm now thinking it's better to use the block to neighborhood file from the City of Seattle GIS webpage. The 5th column is block group (can confirm if non-unique). You could use this to filter the geometry.

Otherwise, you may consider the consolidated+city query option for the Census API.

Documentation on Census ACS API

General

https://www.census.gov/data/developers/data-sets/acs-5year.html

Example list

http://api.census.gov/data/2015/acs5/examples.html

Handcrafted example

http://api.census.gov/data/2015/acs5?get=NAME,B01001_001E&for=block+group:*&in=state:53&in=county:033

hillary-dawkins commented 7 years ago

@bernease I've added the census tract and neighborhood geo files
you can only view one at a time but I've checked that they each display fine individually