philmill / nc-registered-voters-map

Provides Data Transformation, Geolocation, and basic current location for canvasing.

Basic info about the project to be used hopefully for justice and eventually peace

Setup after cloning the project locally

• run nvm use to select or install the correct version of node (you'll need nvm)
• run yarn to download dependencies (you'll need yarn)
• run cp .env.example .env file and replace your-access-token with an access token for a tile service supported by OpenStreetMap. Mapbox is recommended.
• To build the app, run yarn run build
• Publish the dist directory somewhere locally or on a server

Here's the link to Registered Voters in NC

https://www.ncsbe.gov/Public-Records-Data-Info/Election-Results-Data

Todo:

• Transform current CSV file into a json file filtering by zipcode and add geo coordinates with address data. At this point we would also want to filter out unwanted columns and party affiliation.
• Seems like using https://www.geocod.io/ for geolocation for the script is more affordable and can batch requests. We'll have to experiment with batching requests to determine if the results remain ordered by addresses, so we can attach lat/lon to the correct address. Otherwise, we'll have to call the one by one. Their API has a rate limit of about 12 request per second.
• Should attach a map to the html page and play around with GeoJSON and some data points. Going with https://leafletjs.com/examples/quick-start/ and https://www.mapbox.com/pricing/#maps
• would be nice to transform our CSS copy method to a single source which is minified