West Virginia Legislative Redistricting Office

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West Virginia LegislativeRedistricting Office

• Building 1, Room MB48
• 1900 Kanawha Blvd., East
• Charleston, West Virginia
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  25305-0250

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GIS Mission Statement and Geographic Extent of
Digital Mapping The West Virginia Legislative
Redistricting Office uses Maptitude GIS Software
in order to import Census Databases while working
hand-in-hand with members of the West Virginia
State Legislature Redistricting Committees to
redraw Congressional, State Senate, and State
House of Delegates District Boundaries. The
office also provides geospatial specific
information gathered by the decennial census for
individual communities, districts, counties, etc.
Primary or Supplementary Steward for What
Geospatial Data? The Redistricting Office is
responsible for the securing of and the registry
of the United States Geographic and Numeric
Census Data for the State of West Virginia. When
the Legislature passes the new District Plans and
they are signed into law, the Redistricting
Office is the keeper of this geospatial data down
to the Census Block.
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The Statewide Geospatial Community can
Participate in or Benefit from Our Mapping
Efforts By

• The Redistricting Office offers demographic and
  socio-economic data in database, graphic, charts,
  and/or map formats for specific geographic areas.
• Any Municipal or town annexation boundary changes
  would be welcome in digital format in order for
  this office to do everything within our abilities
  to insure the most up-to-date boundaries of the
  same are submitted to the Geography Division of
  the Department of Commerce Census Bureau.
  

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ACCOMPLISHMENTS AND GOALS

• We have Geocoded Zip4 into our Mapping Software
• Layering County specific ridgelines to our maps
  to be added as census block boundaries to the
  TIGER maps.
• Generated Maps for the Counties of West Virginia
  with specifics to realign their Magisterial
  Districts with respect to the 2000 Census
  populations.
• To request from each County political, municipal,
  or precinct boundary definitions in the formats
  they have available.
• Adding more databases to our GIS system to help
  with specific needs within the communities as
  specified by Legislative Members or other
  agencies.
• Work with WVGIS and offer an extended hand to
  address any concerns or needs they may have with
  Legislative Members. This office will continue
  to inform the Members of the GREAT IMPORTANCE OF
  THIS TECHNOLOGY.
• THANK YOU