<div> Statewide School District Boundary Review <br> <br>This is an opportunity to review the state school district layer and provide important boundary information to the US Census. <br> <br>Arron Heriford at DHS recently completed a state-wide school district layer. In addition, he has developed school attendance boundaries and school locations. This is a great data layer that can be used to support many local GIS applications.<br>
<br>Arron would like county organizations to provide feedback on the accuracy of this layer. Your input would be greatly appreciated. Fixing this layer is also very important as we have an opportunity to provide feedback to the US Census Bureau. We only have a few opportunities to influence census data--and it has such enormous impacts. Improving census blocks to more accurately reflect local information is critical to accurately reflecting the new legislative and congressional boundaries needed by the Secretary of States Office for OCVR. <br>
<br>SO THIS IS IMPORTANT! Please follow the steps below. <br> <br>Thanks for your time an sorry for any multiple postings. <br> <br>Dean Anderson <br>IT Director <br>Polk County <br> <br>---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------<br>
<br>The process for giving feedback to Arron is: <br> <br>Step 1: Download the GeoDatabase from GEO <br>( <a href="http://navigator.state.or.us/sdl/data/mdb/k24/OREGON_2010_2011_SCHOOLS.zip">http://navigator.state.or.us/sdl/data/mdb/k24/OREGON_2010_2011_SCHOOLS.zip</a>)<br>
<br>If you do not want to download it you could also access it as a service. <br>(<a href="http://navigator.state.or.us/ArcGIS/rest/services/Projects/ODE_DistrictMap/MapServer">http://navigator.state.or.us/ArcGIS/rest/services/Projects/ODE_DistrictMap/MapServer</a>)<br>
<br> <br>Step 2: Review the combined district layer and compare to yours <br> <br>Step3: If your “official version” is different (better/more accurate) then the state version, just send your shapefile to Arron (with a projection file). In addition, please provide Aaron with any legal descriptions for the school district (if you have them) or any other justification as to why your boundary is better. If you can not "send" shapefiles then please do the followng: </div>
<div>--> a. zip the shape file for your county </div>
<div>--> b. copy it to the Polk Co FTP general site - <a href="ftp://ftp.co.polk.or.us/SchoolDistricts/">ftp://ftp.co.polk.or.us/SchoolDistricts/</a> (login: general password: general) <br> <br>Step4: Aaron will review your suggestions and make changes as appropriate. He will let you know if he accepts changes and if not provide you with some explanation. <br>
<br>Step5: Dean, Andrea, Arron, and Amy will work with census and GEO to communicate these changes. Amy has already started the conversation with Census (Thanks Amy!) </div>
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