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Karen Community
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Map downloads include the community information below.
What is GeoJSON?
GeoJSON files are industry standard and usable with other mapping softwares like Maptitude for Redistricting, Dave's Redistricting App, ESRI, and more.
Send your map to your state.
Congratulations, you have downloaded your map. Your state accepts communities of interest as public input. Visit the site below to submit your map.
When drawing a map with Representable, you are asked a series of questions in different categories. We've repeated the questions below.
Use these questions to think more about how you would describe your community...
- Where do people in your community gather or socialize?
- How and where does your community access services (healthcare, transportation, educational services, etc.)?
Examples of activities and services: Shopping areas, schools and universities, libraries, parks, lakes, rivers, places of worship, healthcare services, public transport, local nonprofit organizations, etc.
Use these questions to think more about how you would describe your community...
- What are the cultural bonds in your community?
- If your community has a shared history, what is it?
Examples of cultural or historical interests: Religious groups, ethnic groups, languages, age groups, immigration status, historic or arts districts, etc.
Your response: Karen community and Vietnamese community
Use these questions to think more about how you would describe your community... - Where are residents employed? - If there are environmental concerns in your community, what are they?
Examples of economic or environmental interests: Tourism industry, agricultural workers, mining town, manufacturing center, polluted natural resource, unemployment problem, etc.
Use these questions to think more about how you would describe your community...
- What should politicians and/or map drawers know about your community?
- What are the needs of your community?
- Is there anything else you want to tell us about your community?
Examples of needs or concerns: Keep community in the same district or separate into multiple districts, shared policy concerns, need for a social service, relationship to other nearby communities, issues with current district lines
To submit your community as public testimony, you can download it as a pdf or share a link. To draw voting districts, you can upload the geoJSON file to mapping softwares such as District Builder, or Dave’s Redistricting App.