What’s new in Esri Redistricting (December 2020)
Esri Redistricting is a web-based software that enables governments, advocates, and citizens to complete and share regulation-compliant redistricting plans. Using the power of Esri’s ArcGIS software and dataset components, Esri Redistricting provides comprehensive tools for plan creation, management, visualization, editing, and collaboration.
Labelling Counties
While before you may have needed to bring in a separate layer to label the counties in the area you are working with, you now have the option to label counties within the application.
This functionality can be found under the Themes button under the Create tab. Click advanced and select label counties to bring in county outlines and labels. You can change the size of the font and color of the labels and lines to make them more visible.
Updating the Homepage in the Admin Console
In the admin console you now have the option to customize the homepage of the application to match your organization’s needs.
Creating Regional Plans
In the new release, we have implemented functionality that allows for you to merge multiple regional plans into a statewide plan, ensuring that no geographies are assigned to multiple districts. See the video below for a more detailed explanation of this process.
- New auto-save capability to allow for recovery in case of unintentional tab closure or internet connectivity problems
- Plan histograms and plan distribution charts can now show more than 50 districts.
- Publishing map packages is now publishing a plan package