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House Education reviews state district-mapping tools; staff to publish committee draft maps
Summary
John Adams of the Center for Geographic Information demonstrated the district builder, School Explorer and drive-time mapper to the House Education committee, addressing CSV/shareable-link workflows, Facilities Condition Index reports and options to publish draft maps for public review.
The House Education committee received a tutorial on Feb. 10 for three state mapping tools designed to help draft and evaluate school districts, with staff agreeing to publish committee draft maps to the School Explorer for broader review.
John Adams, director at the Center for Geographic Information in the Agency of Digital Services, walked members through the district builder, the School Explorer and a drive-time mapper hosted at map.vermont.gov/education. "This is all, custom built open source technology," Adams said, noting the tools are open-source, publicly available and intended to make district configurations and related metrics transparent.
The district builder lets users assemble districts from Vermont towns and aggregates student resident ADM (average daily membership) at the…
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