[Campaigns-l] Congressional Navigation/GUI

[Darrell Silver]

Thanks!

Which data is old, the district lines or the congressional  
representation?

I had other ideas of mapping district lines over time, especially  
interesting with stories of redistricting to benefit incumbencies.   
Availability / reliability of the data is obviously an issue that  
still needs addressing.

D


On Aug 6, 2006, at 5:50 PM, Chad Lupkes wrote:

> Great concept page!
>
> Couple of comments.  Your data is a few years old, and it doesn't  
> work in IE6, only Firefox.  Not sure why.  And the further we zoom  
> out, the less accurate the borders are.
>
> Looks like the GoogleMaps extension is not installed on Wikia, yet.
>
> Chad
>
>
> On 8/6/06, Darrell Silver <darrell at darrellsilver.com> wrote: I've  
> written a beta navigation and I'd love some feedback, especially
> in how it could be improved, integrated and moved to
> campaigns.wikia.  In its current state, I've overlayed congressional
> district data on google maps, where clicking on a district shows the
> current representative.
>
> I'd like to integrate this into wikia, linking from the map data to
> the appropriate entries for that person.  Initially, I was inspired
> by someone's idea here of showing the incumbent and his/her
> challenger, linking to their bios, quotes, issue positions, etc.
>
> The site is currently hosted at
>
> http://campaigns.darrellsilver.com/
>
> I'd like to move it into the wikia site, if possible. Any feedback /
> advice is much appreciated.
>
> Currently, there are a few limitations:
> - no Senate coverage
> - misalignment of the map at high zoom levels.
> - The default view is NYC, b/c that's where I am.  Obviously just
> arbitrary.
>
>
> TIA,
>
> Darrell Silver
>
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