Canadian Redistribution - Provincial and Municipal

[beesley]

Side note, but I really wish there was a Canadian version of DRA.

Been kinda working off and on on one for a while now.....it's just a matter of what to use for building blocks. StatsCan's block boundaries often make no geographical sense.

That's great to hear - I hope it's going well for you, I look forward to seeing it! Thank you.

[beesley]

Has anyone heard of the Public Mapping Project?

http://www.publicmapping.org/resources/software

Is that not only for the US?

[beesley]

In other news:

https://nselectoralboundaries.ca/sites/default/files/electoral_boundaries_2019_english_web.pdf

There are restored Acadian ridings in Richmond, Clare and Argyle, and an African riding in Preston. The tiny riding of Cheticamp didn't make the cut.

[beesley]

In this increasingly misnamed topic, here is my kick at the can for new set of ward boundaries in Ottawa.

Krago's Proposed Ottawa Ward map


Tip of the hat to Hatman for pointing out Mayor Jim Watson's comments on his twitter feed this morning.

Ottawa is one of the few major cities in Canada that seems to have a reasonable number of wards. Calgary having more provincial legislators than councillors is something that seems bizarre to my British-dominated mind.

[beesley]

Krago's Proposed Ottawa Ward Map - Now with Option 2!

Krago's Proposed Ottawa Ward Map - Now with Option 2!

Interesting. What I'd really like to see is a 23 ward map that preserves the three rural wards. Now that would be a challenge.

Oh, and it's Knoxdale (not Knoxville).

As I've said before, I love your work. I try not to be envious, but the main result of this is to strengthen my wish for some redistricting platform.

[beesley]

On Tuesday, the Consultants hired by the City of Guelph to review its ward boundaries released 13 proposed ward maps.  They also included a link to download the shapefile used to create the proposals.

https://www.haveyoursay.guelph.ca/council-composition


On Thursday, I released my (first) five alternatives.

Alternative Guelph Ward Maps


I'm going to be busy this weekend.

For what it's worth the second iteration of your 6 ward proposal was my favourite. In the 8 and 10 ward proposals the south of Guelph is a bit cumbersome.