Making code more generic for use with city censuses

[pwalsh]

Most of the code of the Index is ready for use with other surveys (not just the Global survey).

However, there is some content checked in to the code which has no hooks for generic use. These are things that were added recently:

• Stories
• Press

Additionally, we need to document how to use a custom geo.json so that maps will work with city data, for example. This is possible right now but the steps required are not apparent.

[Stephen-Gates]

Really keen to see the Index being made available to Local Census. It would be great to have a drill-down feature where:

• from a Country, you could drill down to Regions/States within the Country
• from a Region, drill-down to Cities within the Region

[pwalsh]

That is a nice idea - enabling navigation from the global level directly down into national/city data across the network of Index sites. May I suggest you create an issue specifically for this feature, backed with a user story if possible (you can reference this issue in the new one).

[pwalsh]

@morchickit @nealbastek I'd really like to see this happen (have the index code work for any and all census instances). Work for this would be part of local, not global work.

[Stephen-Gates]

Is there any update on making the index work with city/regional census?
What do census admins need to do to prepare? e.g. Find an openly licensed GeoJSON file of city/regional boundaries.

[pwalsh]

Hi @Stephen-Gates

No update on that, sorry. But actually various changes in the code brought this even closer to reality. No sure if it is in the priority queue ( cc @morchickit @nealbastek )

An openly licensed GeoJSON file of city/regional boundaries would be the first thing to have, yes.