"What district am I in" about webvoteview HOT 8 CLOSED

I wrote some code for address to lat-long lookups, which is stage 1 of this project. Next step is being able to map a lat-long to a district. My understanding is that our current JSON files are just shapefiles with no lat-long info in them. I pulled a handful of the district geoJSON files from Jeff's shapefile repo and mocked up some code that uses Shapely to get matches.

Speed is not great; it takes about 6 seconds to compute a full lookup for California. This does stand to reason, though, there are many megabytes of JSON to load, read, process, and match.

Regardless, I have a test example that will take UCLA's address and spit out a bunch of people who represented that point in space.

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Jeff has a proof of concept for the back-end lookup that can do a full lookup in about 2.5 seconds. We're going to test some more about the impact on Mongo's RAM use and then eventually build a page.

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I have not done any UI work or really any functionality yet [please, no feedback on "can it do this" or "shouldn't it look like this" or "does it prevent against this"], but there is a page that at least is a proof of concept for speed, which is plenty fast.

http://128.97.229.160/district

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Nice!!! With the right UI this is going to be great.

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On Oct 20, 2016, at 5:56 PM, Aaron Rudkin [email protected] wrote:

I have not done any UI work or really any functionality yet [please, no feedback on "can it do this" or "shouldn't it look like this" or "does it prevent against this"], but there is a page that at least is a proof of concept for speed, which is plenty fast.

http://128.97.229.160/district

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This seems to be somewhat broken at the moment. Some addresses don't work and I can't get any dropdowns of legislators to appear.

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Luke; this was a DB issue that popped up over the holidays. Adam mostly fixed it, but missed something with the district shapefiles. It is fixed now -- I will get back to finishing the UI stuff.

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I wired up NOMINATE here, but it doesn't quite work. See #106

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I implemented Jeff's line suggestion and tooltips so this function is provisionally "done" and I can mark this as closed. Further discussion in #106 for implementation, I guess?

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