[PLUG] how-to on precinct mapping

[Rich Shepard]

On Sat, 14 Nov 2009, Randy Stapilus wrote:

> I do a fair amount of political voter precinct analysis, and a way of
> easily mapping the results would be very helpful.

> Question - might there be some better way to automate this? If there is, a
> lot of people in the political world would be extremely interested.

   Wander over to http://grass.osgeo.org/ and grab a copy of grass-6.4RC5;
actually, get the latest from the svn server or yesterday's weekly snapshot.

   You can get map data from the Oregon Geospatial Enterprise Office (OR GEO)
at http://www.oregon.gov/DAS/EISPD/GEO/sdlibrary.shtml. You can find
congressional districts, county boundaries, cities, census data, etc.

   You can even color the resulting maps red and blue!

Rich