[TRU Research] District mapping question

[Katie Wilson]

Hi all,

Happy new year, research & data team! I have a question I thought someone in this group might be able to help with. In preparation for the state legislative session, we’re trying to group TRU’s membership by legislative district, so that we can more effectively advocate with individual legislators. We have up-to-date address information for most TRU members, I think. But we haven’t mapped this onto districts yet.

King County has a district finder here <https://www.kingcounty.gov/depts/elections/elections/maps/find-my-districts.aspx> where you can put in your address and it will spit out your state, county and city districts. We can do this manually for each member, but it will be a bit of a chore. Is there a faster / more automatic way to get this done? It would be awesome to be able to feed in bulk address data and end up with a .csv or something with columns for state, county and city district.

Katie

Katie Wilson
General Secretary
Transit Riders Union
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