openlexington / snow-removal

Web map to display snow removal priorities for the City of Lexington

Web map to show snow removal priority streets in Lexington, KY

To create map from shapefile

Filter the features

• Open shapefile in QGIS
• Open attributes table
• Select features using an expression "WHERE snow IS NOT NULL"
• Select all
• Save Selection as new layer
• Save layer as snow-priority-specified.geojson

Create TopoJSON file from shapefile

TopoJSON is an extension of GeoJSON that encodes topology so the dataset loads more quickly over a network.

topojson -o snow-plan-specified.topo.json --simplify-proportion .5 --properties snow snow-priority-specified.geojson

Contributors

Big thanks to Chris Doerge and the GIS team at LFUCG for providing the data and helping to understand it.