Featured Maptitude Map: 2020 Reapportionment to Shift Political Clout South and West

The maps below show estimates of how many congressional seats will be lost or gained by state. Research conducted separately by the UNC-Chapel Hill's Carolina Population Center and Caliper Corporation show almost identical changes.

UNC used data from a variety of sources to predict the losers and winners by state in the 2020 apportionment. The pattern that emerges is of a shift in political power from the northern USA to the south and west.

Using the 2020 population projection data that is included with Maptitude, the Maptitude team were able to verify these projected trends.

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Tech Tip: Can I publish redistricting plans and other maps and data on the Internet or my intranet?

There are three ways you can publish redistricting plans and other maps and data on the Internet and your intranet. The simplest way is to choose Redistricting-Plan Utilities-Publish Plan to HTML. Maptitude for Redistricting turns the plan map and Districts dataview into a static HTML page that you can publish on your web site.

The second way is to export your plan layer to a Google Earth Compressed (.kmz) document. These documents can be shared online and added directly to any Google Earth window on a desktop or mobile device. This method allows viewers to zoom in and out and obtain information on the characteristics you include.

The third and best way is to create interactive web applications that allow you to zoom the map to any location and then display your redistricting data to a wider audience. Caliper's Maptitude for the Web is the easy-to-use and cost-effective tool for this job. Maptitude for the Web, a special edition of Maptitude Geographic Information System (GIS) software, includes all of the regular capabilities of Maptitude, and in addition leverages powerful functions that make it easy for you to design, test and publish interactive map applications on your web site. Maptitude for the Web lets you create dynamic, independent, embeddable, and interactive web applications using a map and a Mapplication (application template). Maptitude map applications are published via a server for intranet or Internet access by end-users. 

In addition, Maptitude Online Redistricting is a web-based redistricting software designed to create redistricting plans, rather than just to share them. The redistricting toolbox is similar to the toolbox in the desktop version, and the user can zoom, pan, and query the map using the mapping tools.

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