Sharing with Maptitude Users The best option to share your plans with other Maptitude users is to send them your plan backup file (the .bak.zip file). You can create a plan backup of the plan you would like to share and send that plan backup to the user. Then, the user can restore from the …
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An introduction to how members of the public can contribute to the redistricting process.
How to use a Subset of Geography in a Redistricting Plan
Maptitude for Redistricting comes with all of the data present in the standard Maptitude US country package, as well as one free detailed state, county, or city/town package of your choice. This includes all of the relevant census geography and redistricting data, so you can get started as soon as you install. For a list …
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Even after downloading your data package, it is possible that your data package is not listed in your plan manager. Before redownloading or reinstalling the data, you may want to check the default install location for Caliper data packages. E.g., C:/XX Data 2020 Final where XX is the state abbreviation. If that folder does not …
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The plan libraries installed with the redistricting data include plans such as: “Enacted Senate B-V-M-C”, “Enacted House B-BG-T-C”, or “Enacted Congress B-V-C”. Caliper creates the enacted boundaries for our default enacted plan libraries based on the Congressional and State Legislative codes the Census Bureau has provided for each census block. See this webpage from the …
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How to use a Communities of Interest layer with your plan
Creating a new template using a template createed with previous geography
It is useful to identify which unassigned features contain population so that you can easily review them in your plan. To do this, follow these steps: Choose Redistricting>Plan Utilities>Export Plan Choose All Districts from the District dropdown Check “Export as Layer Hierarchy Components” Click OK Enter a filename and click Save The resulting file contains …
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Demonstration of Maptitude for Redistricting
