UPDATE February 5, 2012
You can visualize these proposed districts in relation to the current New York State Senate and Assembly districts with our new interactive redistricting map. We developed the interactive map in collaboration with The New York World, and here’s an article using the maps to describe the redistricting process in the Empire State. For more background on the interactive map, visit this blog post.
Original Post
If you’re hoping to use GIS or any of the online mapping tools to map the legislative district lines in New York State that were proposed today by the state’s redistricting task force, you’ll have some work to do. The Task Force released PDF maps as well as “block assignment lists” for the proposed districts.
Unless you’d like to use the shapefiles and/or KML files that our team at the CUNY Graduate Center created! Here’s our web page with the info: http://www.urbanresearch.org/news/proposed-nys-districts-in-gis-format
Happy redistricting mapping!
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