NEWTON,
MASSACHUSETTS - Caliper Corporation announced today the availability of the
Metes and Bounds report for
Maptitude for Redistricting 4.5. This is
the first in a series of custom reports Caliper is designing for
redistricting and litigation support.
The Metes and Bounds report creates a detailed description of the district
boundaries in a plan. Caliper will customize the report to utilize the exact
language and levels of political geography required in your bill. The
example below was created for one of Caliper's New York State clients.
If done manually, a Metes and Bounds report takes months and months of staff
time to complete and can be subject to numerous errors. Running the
Maptitude Metes and Bounds report for all the New York congressional
districts takes just a few minutes and the output is a one-to-one match with
the Census Bureau's TIGER/Line file.
The user has the option of reporting the TIGER/Line ID (TLID) for features
that are not named. The user can then use Maptitude's Find function to zoom
the map to the feature for further identification.
The following are excerpts from the Metes and Bounds report for New York
congressional district 26:
District 26. In the county of Broome, all of the city of Binghamton; all of the town of Binghamton; that part of the town of Chenango bounded by a line described as follows: beginning at a point where the Fenton/Chenango town line meets the Chenango/Dickinson town line, thence westerly along said line to the Dickinson/Chenango town line ... along said line to Brotzman Road, thence southerly along said road to East Hill Road, thence easterly along said road to Gilbert Creek, thence southerly along said stream/river to Front Street, thence easterly along said street to State Highway 12, thence northerly along said road to Nonvisible boundary (TLID:9548982), thence southerly along said line to Local road (TLID:9548973) ... along said line to State Highway 17, thence westerly along said road to Wolf Lake Road, thence southerly along said road to Marginal Road, thence westerly along said road to Local road (TLID:13014663), along said road to Straight Path, along said path to High View Terrace, along said terrace to Lake Shore Drive E, thence northerly along said drive to Marginal Road, thence westerly along said road to Lake Louise Marie Road, along said road to Crescent Circle, along said circle to Lake Louise Marie Road, along said road to N Emerald Drive, along said drive to Local road (TLID:12958678), along said road to N Emerald Drive, along said drive to Old Sackett Road, along said road to Stream/river (TLID:12957310), thence northerly along said stream/river to water feature (TLID:12957345) ... etc.
The Metes and Bounds report is just one example of the kind of software customization, data development, and other redistricting services Caliper is providing to its clients. For more information please contact Caliper Corporation at sales@caliper.com.