TomKrajci 🇺🇦
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There is only one way out of this mess. People power - community building.
Community building takes many forms.
Below is an email I shared with a dozen local colleagues...in the hope to spur action in neighborhoods in Alamogordo.
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This is an initial pin map of Alamogordo city commission district 4. It has four layers, each a different color (different party) that you can turn on/off. (Dem, DTS, GOP, and Other). "Other" is all the minor parties, such as Libertarian, Green, WFP, Con, etc.
There are a bit less than 3,000 voters...at about 1,400 addresses.
If your cell phone is kinda old, it may choke on all the pins in the display. Devices with more computing power should show this map OK (tablets, laptops). As you drive around, your location will be shown on the map. You can pan the map around and zoom in and out.
hxxps://www.google.com/maps....
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TomKrajci 🇺🇦 🏳️🌈 🏳️⚧️@KrajciTom@universeodon.com
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Some caveats:
- Every list has errors. As we visit homes, we'll get feedback on things to correct, then re-issue a slightly better list...wash, rinse, repeat.
- Some pins in this map plot in the middle of street intersections. Google Maps took a best guess at a confusing address...often a fractional/letter-suffix apartment address on a residential lot.
- This pin drop map works best on single family dwelling districts, not apartment complexes...such as Capri Manor Apartments at 1404 Cuba, which takes up a whole block.
- Google Maps only shows one pin at a given house, even if there are two or more pins. There is no additional symbology/coloring to tell you that there are multiple voters at a given address. Even if you click on a pin, you only get the data for the topmost one in the stack, with no indication that other pins are below the top one. (There is a workaround of sorts. I can make lists of those households that have multiple voters.)
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