There have been proposals in most states to establish a non-partisan commission, perhaps most famously at the moment by California maverick Ron Unz promoting a referendum for March 2000. These reforms will tame the gerrymander. The way to kill the gerrymander is to give political minorities representation. Then the map doesn't matter. Countries that use proportional voting systems have much less controversy over their district boundaries because the map doesn't affect the results as much.
Gerrymander is an American term.