Maptitude for Redistricting Newsletter Summer 2019

Summer 2019 Newsletter


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Census day is only 300 days away. Citizens will be tabulated for 2020 and redistricting will officially begin. Now is the time to make sure your redistricting software is up to date, your staff are hired, and you are prepared for the road ahead. Are You Ready?

“By failing to prepare, you are preparing to fail.”
~ Benjamin Franklin
Contact Us to ensure your licenses are up-to-date, to obtain additional licenses or to become a new customer.

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Maptitude for Redistricting 2019 has new Partisan Competitiveness reports, adds access to imagery layers, and allows you to save and share your plans in a variety of formats.

Partisan Competitiveness Reports
Evaluate the partisan competitiveness of districts using the Efficiency Gap measure, Declination and Mean-Median Difference. These measures provide valuable insight on the composition of your districts when using political data. More...

Access to Imagery Layers
No one knows your districts better than you. Add aerial, road, terrain, and hybrid map layers (including OpenStreetMap, USGS Topographic Maps, and USGS Aerial Imagery) that can serve as distinctive backgrounds to your redistricting plans. More...

Save and Share Your Plans in a Variety of Formats
Maptitude for Redistricting makes sharing your plans easy. Quickly produce Census Block to District equivalency files to maintain plan relationships. Create Google Earth Documents (KML/KMZ) to share online and with mobile devices. Export to other standard GIS file types — the choice is yours. More...

Featured Map:
North Carolina Senate District Changes

Maptitude for Redistricting map of Changes to North Carolina Senate Districts 2011-1018

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How do I Learn to Use Maptitude for Redistricting 2019?

Maptitude for Redistricting continues to provide numerous ways to get you started with the software. New and revised tutorials have been added to our website.

The Maptitude for Redistricting Help (Help>Maptitude for Redistricting Help) has been redesigned to be viewed within a web browser, with a modern browser-based interface.

Maptitude for Redistricting 2019 includes a Windows Microsoft Office style question mark icon on most windows. Clicking this will take you to the relevant section of the Help. You can also hover over any menu item and click F1 to access the updated Help.

Tech Tip:
How do I use the Cut Edges test to measure compactness in Maptitude for Redistricting 2019?

The Cut Edges test in Maptitude for Redistricting 2019 counts the number of edges removed from the adjacency (dual) graph of the base layer — usually Census Blocks — to define the districting plan. The smaller number returned implies a more compact plan.

From the Redistricting Menu, choose Reports to display the Reports dialog box.
Choose Measures of Compactness and click Run.
Choose Cut Edges (along with other desired measures) and click OK.

Maptitude for Redistricting includes the Cut Edges value in the report.

*Cut edges is a new compactness measure recently proposed by Moon Duchin & the Metric Geometry and Gerrymandering group.

Learning:

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