Posts tagged with "Gerrymandering"

December 29, 2011

MarylandReporter.com interviewed Azavea's Daniel McGlone about compactness in their congressional districts

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Len Lazarick of the MarylandReporter.com interviewed Azavea's Daniel McGlone regarding the compactness of Maryland's congressional districts. “Maryland may very well take the prize for..." … continue reading
December 16, 2011

Azavea's Dan McGlone blogs about redistricting in Pennsylvania and his post receives much attention from the media

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Azavea's own Daniel McGlone wrote a blog a few days ago about Congressional Redistricting in Pennsylvania. His post has received much attention and has been mentioned on several media websites and als… continue reading
November 22, 2011

New York state redistricting competition to use DistrictBuilder

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Cory Doctorow of boingboing profiles DistrictBuilder,  a project of the Public Mapping Project, built by Azavea. The DistrictBuilder is an open-sourced software tool created to help the public be… continue reading
February 26, 2010

CNN Talks to Robert Cheetham about Redistricting

CNN's Jessica Yellin interviewed Robert Cheetham about the U.S. redistricting process. Air date: Wednesday, February 24, 2010. continue reading
October 29, 2009

Avencia Launches Redistricting the Nation.com, a Ground-Breaking Public Engagement Web Application To Measure Compactness and Gerrymandering of U.S. Election Districts

Following the upcoming 2010 census reports, states and municipalities will engage in a nationwide legislative redistricting process. But in some parts of the country, the redrawing of distr… continue reading
November 3, 2008

Avencia Creates Maps and Performs Geographic Analysis for MAPLight.org Report Showing House Members Raise 79% of Funds from Outside their Voters’ Districts

Click here to read MAPLight.org's press release. Avencia Incorporated, a Philadelphia-based geospatial software design and development company, has partnered with MAPLight.org, a nonpartisan, nonp… continue reading
November 1, 2008

Avencia Announces Collection of Elections Tools and Services

Cicero is a legislative district boundary and elected official web API that matches citizens with their local, state, and national representatives by tapping into a massive database of voting dist… continue reading
November 22, 2006

Gerrymandering Study Featured in Philadelphia Inquirer Article on Fixing Local Government

Azavea's gerrymandering study featured in Philadelphia Inquirer article about local government. continue reading
November 2, 2006

Avencia's Gerrymandering White Paper Featured in Philadelphia Inquirer

Our 2006 white paper on gerrymandering inspired a feature article in the Philadelphia Inquirer. Read 'Phila. tops study in gerrymandering' by Michael Currie Schaffer.   continue reading