Add US render back to output

[migurski]

…to facilitate US debugging.

[iandees]

🇺🇸 🇺🇸

[NelsonMinar]

Would it be useful to have a zoomable map view? If you can emit some sort of shapes for the colored regions I'll cobble up a Leaflet map. Or maybe a GeoJSON already exists?

[migurski]

Might be—there are already shapefiles in the repository, if you want to start with those. I’ve typically found the zoomable versions a bit less informative than the static ones here, but I think it’d be possible to crank out both.

[migurski]

Where we’re at currently:

[NelsonMinar]

Just for comparison, here's what the Fairview data layer says is available for county data (from Mike's image).

[iandees]

FWIW, I spent a good part of the weekend looking through the Fairview data and a large majority of the URLs they have listed are either 404s or don't contain address data.

[migurski]

Should we therefore stub out files for those counties, with skip=true and a note?

[iandees]

Yea, it might make sense to auto-generate all the county-level sources.

If we do that, we probably should break up the sources/ dir into separate dirs for region/states if it would be feasible for machine to support it.

[migurski]

I don’t think I’ve ever tried to run it with subdirectories, but it should be relatively easy to make that work.

[NelsonMinar]

I really don't like the idea of mixing auto-generated source files that don't work with hand-edited personally contributed files that do work, or have some reason to think could work. If we go this route there should be some way to communicate the provenance of the file, either a separate directory or else a comment in the JSON. (We're way off topic for this issue, sorry I started a de-rail.)