US Congressional Districts
Historic and current US Congressional districts as GeoJSON, versioned within Git
Usage
Viewing a district's history
- Select a state from the list above
- Select a district
- You will see the district boundaries for the 113th congress
- Click history
- Select a congress to compare changes in that district boundaries to the previous congress, if any
As an API
Files in this repository follow a predictable file structure and can be treated as a RESTful API.
Each district's geoJSON for the current year can be retrieved via ben.balter.com/congressional-districts/#{STATE}/#{DISTRICT}.geojson
where STATE
is the two character state postal code, and DISTRICT
is the two digit congressional district number with leading 0
s.
Data
All data obtained from US Census Datasets, although I don't guarantee their accuracy.
Building
script/build
will download all the relevant datasets (if not already downloaded), unzip, convert from ESRI Shapefile to the open GeoJSON format, break into files/folders by state/district, and commit, amending the git history to reflect the day the congress took session.
License
MIT