stuartlynn / NYCCensusCountMap

A tool to help organizers get people signed up for the census.

Census Count Map

The NY Census Count Map brings together data from a number of sources into a single tool to help organizations and individuals count everyone in New York. The application is currently in active development and is temporarily deployed at this link: https://stuartlynn.github.io/NYCCensusCountMap

Running the app

The app has been built as a stand alone single page React app. To spin the app up locally for development follow these steps:

1. Clone this repo

git clone https://github.com/stuartlynn/NYCCensusCountMap.git

2. Move in to the repo folder and install dependencies:

cd NYCCensusCountMap
yarn

or if you like npm better you can do

cd NYCCensusCountMap
npm i

then run the application

yarn start

or

npm start

this should open up a browser window running the app on port 3000. If you navigate to http://localhost:3000 you should see the app running.

Contributing to the project

There are multiple different ways you can contribute to the project.

1. Use the map and get involved in the census count! This is by far the most important
2. If you find something that doesn't work as you expect it to, open an issue and tell us about it
3. If you want to help out with code or data, take a look at our contribution guide.