A friend sent me an interesting map of where the Ward Five candidates for Harry Thomas' seat live (based on mail addresses provided to DCBOEE). The map came out of a discussion of the geography of political power in Ward Five. He was saying that most of that power is concentrated in the neighborhoods near Brookland and Michigan Park. His map depicts the locations of the home addresses for each candidate who turned in their petition signatures. Do you see a pattern here?
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The pattern I see confuses the hell out of me. Why are there lines in the background, why not just place points?
We could always make a second map without lines. My point was that most candaidates are clustered pretty close together.
Is this based off of their contact info from the page you have linked? I think that most people's contact info and home address are probably the same, but not all, like that of Tim Day.
Or is this based off of a different list?
Some map geek could create a cool map that includes a visual to demonstrate population density as well as place point for the addresses.
I'm no such geek however.
It seems that the people are clustered in the more dense neighborhoods, however. You also cant see the ward outline on the map, so it's harder to visualize the spread.
Waaahmbulance is right. Tim Day's address for this purpose should be:
3205 7th St NE
Washington, DC 20017-1414
http://www.whitepages.com/name/Timothy-W-Day/Washington-DC/3nmswk4
I think he didn't put it as his contact address because people have vandalized his home.
Waaahmbulance,
I'm assuming that he based it off that list. But yeah, that's obviously not tim Day's home address.
It is interesting that the northern western most, and the south eastern most part of the ward doesn't have a lot of candidates. I wonder how this correlates to polling.
Um, is F in Ward 5? John Salatti is not on here.
Bloomingdale resident,
F is addressed above. It's just the mailing address for Tim Day.
Yeah, it's clear the map isn't accurate, and perhaps, is confusing with all of the lines. Beyond that, we can take if for what it is.
Was the pattern left by the Masons when they built DC?
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