sunlightlabs/boundaryservice — Issue #1: Normalizing boundary id's/stubs
Author: grgcombs
Created: 2011-12-19 04:18:53+00:00
State: open

Is there anything we can do on this end to improve normalization of boundary IDs (stubs)? It becomes nearly impossible to anticipate and construct stubs to call up legislative districts in a few states that have funky district names. Massachusetts, Virginia, and a few others are downright silly. Unfortunately they use non-standard district names, but is there an option of forcing some sanity onto them?

Something like sldu-va-state-house-district-1-jimbo-wallace-creek could be shortened to just up to the district-1 part, couldn't it? If not, at least for the purposes of requesting/loading the appropriate boundary, I'd hope.