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Post by greenhert on Jun 30, 2021 20:44:27 GMT
Were you thinking of Frampton Cotterell? No, it had an "and". (Looks at map) And I meant in the inner suburban, not pseudo rural part when I wrote "suburbs". I think it was Staple Hill & Mangotsfield. That is definitely the only ward of South Gloucestershire that would fit.
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Post by Foggy on Jul 1, 2021 10:12:39 GMT
Nothing appears to happen when you select the 'Initial Proposals' overlay on a plan for the Isle of Wight, although it could just be my browser playing up as usual.
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Post by islington on Jul 1, 2021 10:35:31 GMT
Nothing appears to happen when you select the 'Initial Proposals' overlay on a plan for the Isle of Wight, although it could just be my browser playing up as usual. No, but the IoW proposals show up on the South East map.
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Post by Pete Whitehead on Jul 1, 2021 10:45:06 GMT
Nothing appears to happen when you select the 'Initial Proposals' overlay on a plan for the Isle of Wight, although it could just be my browser playing up as usual. I find the same (in Chrome and Edge) although I'm sure that had been working for me previously in that area
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Post by islington on Jul 12, 2021 10:14:07 GMT
Is the site down?
Edited to add: No, it seems fine now. Sorry for false alarm.
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Post by jamie on Aug 1, 2021 13:01:37 GMT
This is probably a stupid question, but what does an exported file do? The Commission accepts an exported Excel file from Plan Builder but I can't use it to access my plan on the Boundary Assistant website. Do they just use the Excel document without looking at it in map form?
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Post by carlton43 on Aug 1, 2021 15:02:45 GMT
This is probably a stupid question, but what does an exported file do? The Commission accepts an exported Excel file from Plan Builder but I can't use it to access my plan on the Boundary Assistant website. Do they just use the Excel document without looking at it in map form? It creates a Balance of Ballots Surplus.
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Post by greenchristian on Aug 1, 2021 19:05:39 GMT
This is probably a stupid question, but what does an exported file do? The Commission accepts an exported Excel file from Plan Builder but I can't use it to access my plan on the Boundary Assistant website. Do they just use the Excel document without looking at it in map form? You answered your initial question. Exporting a file saves the data in csv format, allowing you to open it in any spreadsheet program. Plan builder does not have the ability to import that file into its native file format and use it to recreate the plan, since this would require extra programming for relatively little benefit.
As for how the Boundary Commission use the csv file you'd have to ask someone who actually works there. They may have their own system for converting spreadsheet files (whether csv or excel) into maps or they may directly compare your submitted spreadsheet with their own to see where the plans differ.
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Post by Ports on Jan 23, 2022 16:39:46 GMT
Is there any way to generate spatial data for one of the json files? I assume not, but it would be helpful as once a json file does have it it could then be converted into shp format.
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Post by kevinlarkin on Jan 23, 2022 19:36:32 GMT
Is there any way to generate spatial data for one of the json files? I assume not, but it would be helpful as once a json file does have it it could then be converted into shp format. No, unfortunately that is not possible as the only spatial data held in the plan json file are the polygons drawn to bisect a split ward. I have looked into the possibility of creating a layer with polygons for each plan constituency but there were technical and data quality issues that made it too difficult/time-consuming to implement at the time.
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Post by Ports on Jan 24, 2022 14:13:59 GMT
Is there any way to generate spatial data for one of the json files? I assume not, but it would be helpful as once a json file does have it it could then be converted into shp format. No, unfortunately that is not possible as the only spatial data held in the plan json file are the polygons drawn to bisect a split ward. I have looked into the possibility of creating a layer with polygons for each plan constituency but there were technical and data quality issues that made it too difficult/time-consuming to implement at the time. Understood and thanks for the response - I wouldn't want you to do anything difficult. It's a fantastic resource as it is.
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Post by manchesterman on Jan 23, 2023 23:57:40 GMT
Has anyone else been having issues recently with the Split ward feature? Lately, whenever I create my polygon, one of 3 things happens: 1) When I try to click the "Split" button from the pop-up it is effectively inactive and I have to close the pop-up and the polygon disappears 2) It refuses to process and give a pop up error message about there being "more than one layer" [which is weird as this is even happens the first time I use it in that session] 3) It gives a pop up error message "the polygon must contain part of the currently active ward" [which it did]
Eventually, after about 20 attempts, it randomly works, but does anyone have any thoughts on this or prior knowledge of this being an issue?
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Post by bjornhattan on Jan 24, 2023 7:58:47 GMT
Has anyone else been having issues recently with the Split ward feature? Lately, whenever I create my polygon, one of 3 things happens: 1) When I try to click the "Split" button from the pop-up it is effectively inactive and I have to close the pop-up and the polygon disappears 2) It refuses to process and give a pop up error message about there being "more than one layer" [which is weird as this is even happens the first time I use it in that session] 3) It gives a pop up error message "the polygon must contain part of the currently active ward" [which it did] Eventually, after about 20 attempts, it randomly works, but does anyone have any thoughts on this or prior knowledge of this being an issue? I've never had issues with actually splitting the ward, but sometimes it's caused issues with the electorate (iirc removing a split ward doesn't seem to reduce the electorate but adding it back still increases it).
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Post by manchesterman on Jan 24, 2023 13:47:44 GMT
Thanks. I was just flagging it up as I havent had an issue with it either, up until the last few weeks..
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Post by European Lefty on Jan 24, 2023 15:36:18 GMT
I have had, but I don't use the function very often
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Post by YL on Jan 24, 2023 18:42:14 GMT
Has anyone else been having issues recently with the Split ward feature? Lately, whenever I create my polygon, one of 3 things happens: 1) When I try to click the "Split" button from the pop-up it is effectively inactive and I have to close the pop-up and the polygon disappears 2) It refuses to process and give a pop up error message about there being "more than one layer" [which is weird as this is even happens the first time I use it in that session] 3) It gives a pop up error message "the polygon must contain part of the currently active ward" [which it did] Eventually, after about 20 attempts, it randomly works, but does anyone have any thoughts on this or prior knowledge of this being an issue? I have occasionally had similar problems, usually I think when the polygon I've been trying to draw intersects the ward boundary in more places than I intended. Indeed I just tried and had no problem with an obvious clean split but had a similar response to the one you describe when splitting a ward in a way which left the remaining area disconnected.
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Post by kevinlarkin on Jan 25, 2023 23:00:09 GMT
Has anyone else been having issues recently with the Split ward feature? Lately, whenever I create my polygon, one of 3 things happens: 1) When I try to click the "Split" button from the pop-up it is effectively inactive and I have to close the pop-up and the polygon disappears 2) It refuses to process and give a pop up error message about there being "more than one layer" [which is weird as this is even happens the first time I use it in that session] 3) It gives a pop up error message "the polygon must contain part of the currently active ward" [which it did] Eventually, after about 20 attempts, it randomly works, but does anyone have any thoughts on this or prior knowledge of this being an issue? Nothing has changed recently. On your specific points: 1) The error handling is obviously not exhaustive and could be improved, at the moment there isn't a catch-all for unpredicted scenarios. 2) I don't recognize this error message so it is most likely coming from the API. It suggests that you are splitting the ward into more than two parts which is not supported. The function is not designed for intricate splits that run very close to the ward boundary. 3) The active ward must be selected before you start drawing the split polygon and it must be the ward displayed in the top right hand section of the app. It is unfortunate that the BCE and Ordnance Survey are unable to maintain updated mapping of polling district boundaries, a much simpler way of splitting of splitting wards than drawing your own lines on a map. I saw your suggestion on the Census 2021 thread about using output areas and that is something I will take a look at.
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Post by manchesterman on Jan 27, 2023 0:05:08 GMT
Thanks for your input Kevin and please don't think my comment was in any way a criticism. Your tool is an invaluable and treasured resource to many of us on this forum. Thanks also for your clarifications. Other than running close to the boundary, all the other points mentioned were adhered to. I've just brought my boundaries in a bit 7 that seems to work, just dosent look as 'neat'. Thanks also also for looking into the Census output areas too.
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Post by sirbenjamin on Feb 6, 2023 20:40:07 GMT
Does anyone know of any non-Labour alternatives to Boundary Assistant?
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Post by greatkingrat on Feb 6, 2023 20:58:03 GMT
Does anyone know of any non-Labour alternatives to Boundary Assistant? Why don't you go and create one yourself if it really offends you that badly to have to use a website created by a Labour supporter?
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