Detailed outlines of legislative constituencies
Description
Detailed outlines of legislative constituencies (2012 definition) builds from existing data in OpenStreetMap with a level of detail approaching the address. The missing data for 25 city centres are supplemented by the cutting proposed by the site [Toxicode](http://www.toxicode.fr/circonscriptions).
For the parliamentary elections, the division is carried out by constituency which are themselves a group of cantons. However, for legislative constituencies the former division of the cantons is still used. To create precise and detailed data on the division of legislative constituencies of the contributors of OpenStreetMap France have therefore carried out new work. In order to do so, they proceeded as follows:
— find descriptions of the former division of the cantons in various publications of the Official Journal,
— correctly interpret these descriptions,
— group all the descriptions found,
— integrate these descriptions with OpenStreetMap in order to create data on the division of constituencies.
From this work carried out by OpenStreetMap contributors we were able to create the dataset presenting the contours of the legislative constituencies at a very fine level of detail, approaching the address. Since we lacked data for about 20 downtown we completed this cutting thanks to the work of Toxicode. Finally, we were able to accurately determine the distribution of election billboards between each electoral district.
[In blue the new detailed outlines of the electoral districts of the legislatures](https://panneaux-election.fr/wp-content/uploads/2017/05/contours-circonscriptions-législatives.png “In blue the new detailed contours of the electoral districts of the legislatures”)
Resources
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https://www.data.gouv.fr/fr/datasets/r/72c2d2ee-ba84-46cd-b99e-0224093d7ca5 |
Tags
- circonscriptions-legislatives
- election
- elections-legislatives
- carte
- openstreetmap
- geojson