Out of Date senators/reps about massgis

[calvinmetcalf]

the data on the website is from 5/29/2013 is that the one that's out of date your talking about ?

[jwass]

I looked into this a little bit more. A couple of things are going on.

• The repo's current HOUSE2012_POLY.geojson was generated from an older shapefile than what's currently posted on MassGIS here:
  http://www.mass.gov/anf/research-and-tech/it-serv-and-support/application-serv/office-of-geographic-information-massgis/datalayers/house2012.html.
• The MassGIS shapefile contains out-of-date information.

Using 8th Suffolk district as an example. The repo's current file lists the rep as Martha Walz. MassGIS's shapefile (updated 5/2103) lists it as open. Jay Livingstone now represents that district.

[calvinmetcalf]

This is a recurring problem with MassGIS my inclination is to just have this synced with massgis, though since I have to keep an updated layer for something else anyway I might make a separate repo with the rep districts.

[jwass]

Sounds good. Definitely a better idea to stay synced with MassGIS especially given the rest of the repo, but figured I'd ask. I'll send a pull request just to bring the house data up to the current shapefile.

And we should get on someone's case at MassGIS to get their data correct.

[calvinmetcalf]

I'll make the new repo tomorrow populate it tomorrow when I update these for work

[calvinmetcalf]

https://github.com/calvinmetcalf/MA-Legislators