PublicMapping/DistrictBuilder — Issue #167: Assist in data retrieval/loading/prep
Author: abbyfretz
Created: 2011-10-13 18:37:11+00:00
State: open

A major impediment for some organizations is the process of retrieving the census spatial data, associating demographics and political data and loading it into the system. Are there ways we can lower the barrier to entry?

A few ways to lower the barrier are:

* Improving documentation (where to get data, which data to get)
* Providing automated methods of bundling statewide data. Standalone data-fetching scripts that can grab data and pre-process it (think Perl and CPAN)?
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