I just took a tour through the on-line redistricting app, and took a look at the Mapservices it uses.
All the attributes somehow pertain to race. This encourages planners to create districts based solely on race.
I would like to be able to geocode points, aggregate them into census polygons (blocks,tracts etc) and make those tables available to Redistricting Online. For example, suppose a school district needs to re-draw their attendance zones. They would do this by geocoding their students, and aggregate those students to census blocks. The resulting table would be keyed by census block number, and would include attributes specified by the user. For example, LunchProgram would indicate the number of students in the census block who particpate in the free lunch program. This would allow planners to draw lines to create socioeconomically balanced attendance zones.
As a business partner, I would also like to be able to publish a geoprocessing tool so that it could be added to the UI of the geoprocessing app. The GP tool would do things like analyze a plan to identify things like busy streets where kids would need to cross to get to school.
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