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voteview / WebVoteView

Webbased rollcall vote visualization software
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Map historical district boundaries #307

Open adamboche opened 7 years ago

adamboche commented 7 years ago

We've had a feature request to watch the district boundaries for a place change over time.

aaronrudkin commented 6 years ago

I like the suggestion, since I like the map animation on the party control page and I also think it's a logical extension to what we're doing on the geography page. I looked into adding this when I added the district boundaries to the map in geography. The problem is that this involves computing and transferring quite a bit of data -- 10-20X what we transfer now, in addition to the UI of doing a jump through time thing while keeping the map box small on the right hand column.

I think the next step we'd want to take to implement this would be to see if Jeff could generate "low resolution" versions of the historical district data to try to solve this.