2021-09-09 Redistricting Commission minutes (2nd Session)

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There is one more tool that I do find handy and that is back on the create tab. There’s a base map tool and you can change the base map. There’s a number of different base maps you can use. I find the imagery one, which I’ve chosen here, quite useful particulary if I’m zoomed in and I’m looking at an area, I don’t want to split a community or I don’t want a boundary going through a ridgeline, or you know, various different reasons, I’m trying to follow the guidelines. Sometimes the imagery is quite helpful as you’re trying to understand they geography of an area and draw appropriate boundaries. And so with that, I’ve shown you the basics of these tools for Hawaiʻi Redistricting Online, how to create your account, use plan templates, map window—the districts window, the big one, assigning census blocks, and then sharing, reviewing, and submitting your plans. Enjoy! We look forward to seeing the plans that everyone comes up with. Mahalo. JONES: Okay, so that was a—actually brief—training video. It was 25 minutes. I tried to cover the basics that you would need to be able to do a plan. I didn’t cover—oh, hang on—I'm not sure what’s happening here. Can you hear me? Somebody give me a thumbs up. KOSSOW: Looks like staff is on it. JONES: Okay. So, there we go. Okay. What was I saying? I lost my train of thought. Well as you’re working with the online application, we have added a few things since I’ve made that video. So now when you zoom in and you see the census blocks, we figured how to actually show you the population within that census block so you know beforehand. When I made the video, we hadn’t figured out how to do that yet and so you just had to click and see the change. Now you can actually see the numbers beforehand. We found that very helpful to be able to see those numbers. But other than that, I guess— oh I was saying that this is a short introduction. There are more tools. The ESRI site has lots of detailed help if you want to dig into it more. But I think in the video, I covered the basic steps that you would need to create a plan. So at this point, I guess I can take questions. KOSSOW: Any questions from the Commission? Mr. Hustace. HUSTACE: Thank you, Chair. Just a question about when we use the, you know, just when we’re looking at the census tracts and the blocks and we use the identified tool, is there a key or legend that tells us the code names for those fields? I mean I can kind of understand some of them maybe but it’s written in shortform there from the census. JONES: Yeah, yeah, I know that tool is not the most user-friendly tool. That’s for sure. I’m not aware of any but, let me write a note. So you’re using the identified tool and say, clicking on a block, and it was giving— HUSTACE: It gives the basic demographics and the breakdown there but, there isn’t a key code for those. 22