[TRU Research] District mapping question

[Jim Walseth]

Doug,
Sounds like you've got this but I can help if it gets too tedious.
Jim

On Thu, Jan 7, 2021 at 2:23 PM Katie Wilson <katie at transitriders.org> wrote:

> Awesome, thanks Doug!  Yes, we have a field in the current form for
> Seattle City Council district, though it’s not filled in for everyone. (For
> example, I just checked my profile, and although my address is there the
> district field is blank.)  But at this point we will want to add fields for
> county district and state leg district. In the upcoming session, it will be
> that last one that counts. (And I guess it wouldn’t hurt to throw
> congressional in there for good measure.)
>
> Katie
>
> On Jan 7, 2021, at 2:20 PM, sextondouglas <sextondouglas at comcast.net>
> wrote:
>
> Hey Katie
>
> Did a cursory look and this seems like it should be pretty doable and I
> could write a script after work today. I see my tru profile already has my
> seattle city council district though so is this not info we already have?
>
>
> Doug
>
>
> -------- Original message --------
> From: Katie Wilson <katie at transitriders.org>
> Date: 1/7/21 1:52 PM (GMT-08:00)
> To: research at transitriders.org
> Subject: [TRU Research] District mapping question
>
> 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
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