emergingdigitalacademy / gis-workshop

Civic Hackathon Weekend 2015 project: Still a work in progress, needs cleaned up and refactored

Census Mapper GIS Workshop

The main branch contains the starting repo and checkpoints folder for a GIS Workshop. For a more advanced and less documented project (that includes multiple data sets), see the hackathon branch.

To see the final solution, just copy the checkpoints/04/script-final.js into the script.js file.

To run the project just clone the project and use any static HTTP server like python -m SimpleHTTPServer or serve (install with npm install -g serve).

To download census data:

1. https://data.census.gov/cedsci/ -- click 'advanced search'
2. Click on Geography -> Block -> North Dakota -> Cass County -> All Blocks Within Cass County --> Search...
3. Select DataSet. You can view it in a table, or on a map to verify.
4. Download -> Select your data -> CSV file will be downloaded (as a zip file)
5. Turn the CSV file into a json file for easy loading: npm install -g csv2json, then csv2json ./FILENAME.csv DATASET.json (use the file that has 'with labels' in the name)