Posts tagged with "redistricting"

January 18, 2012

DistrictBuilder is used for public redistricting in New York

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Azavea's open source software, DistrictBuilder, has received some more media attention recently for its help in the 2012 New York Redistricting Project.    Zack Stieber of The Epoch Time… continue reading
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 22, 2011

Daniel McGlone's interview with PA Independent about redistricting in Pennsylvania

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Eric Boehm from PA Independent interviewed Daniel McGlone, a GIS Analyst at Azavea, about redistricting and the compactness rankings of districts in Pennsylvania.Read the article here. Daniel's inter… continue reading
December 20, 2011

DistrictBuilder is highlighted on O'Reilly Radar

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Alex Howard from O'Reilly Radar focuses on redistricting and mentions the software that Azavea helped build, DistrictBuilder. Alex talks about the technology of district building and how the community… continue reading
December 20, 2011

The Philadelphia Daily News highlights Azavea's efforts in the redistricting process

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The Philadelphia Daily News posted an editorial today on philly.com about the redistricting process in the city and how Azavea's easy to use redistricting software has caught the attention of people i… 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

Public Mapping Project makes O'Reilly Radar's 'four short links' list

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Nat Torkington, a writer for the O'Reilly Radar, included DistrictBuilder (a project of the Public Mapping Project, built by Azavea) on his 'Four short links' post today. Torkington explains how the D… 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
September 7, 2011

Fix Philly Districts' strong impact on the public and the City of Philadelphia in recent weeks

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FixPhillyDistricts.com launched Philadelphia's first ever redistricting competition in early August. Since then, there has been much attention geared towards the whole experience by multiple media out… continue reading
September 7, 2011

Winners Announced for First Web-based Public Redistricting Contest Held in Philadelphia

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On August 5, Azavea, a geospatial analysis (GIS) software development company announced the launch of FixPhillyDistricts.com (http://fixphillydistricts.com/), the first online public redistricting com… continue reading