06-17-2019, 01:28 PM
A week or so ago, I was listening to a discussion of the proposed redistricting of voting districts, as they pertain to NC, on Capitol Tonight. Capitol Tonight airs on our local Spectrum News Channel. I like Spectrum for local news as they at least try to appear to be unbiased in their presentation of NC news.
Anyway, what I found interesting about the discussion was that they mentioned that redrawing voting districts sometimes presents rather unique challenges, as they are formed by actual physical landmarks, such as rivers and waterways, etc., rather than arbitrary lines as with a political map. As a Surveyor, I found this quite curious as a map for political use is ruled by geographic features, when typically it's geographic features added to political maps to show their spatial relations to one another.
Anyway, what I found interesting about the discussion was that they mentioned that redrawing voting districts sometimes presents rather unique challenges, as they are formed by actual physical landmarks, such as rivers and waterways, etc., rather than arbitrary lines as with a political map. As a Surveyor, I found this quite curious as a map for political use is ruled by geographic features, when typically it's geographic features added to political maps to show their spatial relations to one another.
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