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Re: GC416ZD Minnesota State House District Challenge

[Resolved] GC416ZD Minnesota State House District Challenge
January 21, 2021 01:01AM
I have an existing challenge requiring cachers to find a cache in every state house district in Minnesota. A cacher requested that I try to add a checker to the cache page and I don't know if it's possible. I imagine the biggest problem would be finding the maps. There are maps available here:
https://www.gis.leg.mn/hsemapdata.htm
I don't know if these are compatible, however. Can this checker be made? Thanks in advance.
sparkyfry
Re: GC416ZD Minnesota State House District Challenge
January 21, 2021 04:07AM
As this is an existing challenge the guidelines don't apply, but they would for any new checker.(Guidelines stipulate that only county/region/country can be used as areas). The map could be defined for your challenge, but it would likely be a significant effort, and it wouldn't be reusable, due to the guidelines

So, it is possible, but I wouldn't hold your breath. If a checker creator lives locally you might get lucky :-)

edit: Oh, and I have to say..... SKOL! or Go Vikings!! ( Ihave been a Vikings fan living very far away (In Oz!) ever since Warren Moon joined the vikings a billion years ago)



Edited 2 time(s). Last edit at 01/21/2021 04:11AM by GreyHams. (view changes)
Re: GC416ZD Minnesota State House District Challenge
May 23, 2021 03:08AM
Howdy, if you can find a polygon version of the districts, it might be doable. However just the graphic is not going to cut it. Possible formats include kml, csv, shp, or .db3 files.
Re: GC416ZD Minnesota State House District Challenge
May 23, 2021 03:21AM
Actually, I might have found that? It's here:
https://www.gis.leg.mn/html/download.html
If you select "political boundaries," then go to "House Districts" for 2012, on the "download" tab on the right, there are options for Shapefile, KML, and GeoJSON. Would the KML there work?
Re: GC416ZD Minnesota State House District Challenge
November 09, 2021 05:01AM
He doesn't have time, he's very busy. But I noticed this and thought I would take a look at it...

I couldn't get that site to give me any data in kml or geojson formats, but I was able to download shapefiles and I converted those to kml here:

http://www.falstad.com/districts.zip

I also tried to convert it to the polygon format like GenericPolyChecker uses. See "polygons.txt".

There's a lot of points.. I hope that won't be a problem.
Re: GC416ZD Minnesota State House District Challenge
November 10, 2021 01:01PM
I tried to import this in a polychecker but is it possible to convert the coordinates into a polygon json.

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Re: GC416ZD Minnesota State House District Challenge
May 23, 2021 05:10PM
I am debugging the JSON on another polygon cache. When I finish that, this will be next.
Re: GC416ZD Minnesota State House District Challenge
May 24, 2021 02:50AM
That site is giving me security problems at the moment. So I am holding off.

If you have time, you can help reformat some of the data for upload. It is not hard to do, just tedious. Let me know if you are so motivated.
Re: GC416ZD Minnesota State House District Challenge
November 11, 2021 04:56PM
Here is the link https://project-gc.com/Challenges/GC416ZD/64309

Please test and reply
Re: GC416ZD Minnesota State House District Challenge
November 11, 2021 08:47PM
Works for me as well!
Re: GC416ZD Minnesota State House District Challenge
November 11, 2021 07:01PM
Looks great to me!
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