Importing Districts

Importing shapefiles

If you’d like to view districts that aren’t available as premade districts or are custom made districts from outside of Redistricter, you can import the shapefile for those districts into Redistricter.

Then on the map browser select the Import shapefile button in the top right corner, select the relevant state, upload the shapefile, and click Import map.

Troubleshooting Imports

If an error occurs and the imported map fails to load, verify that the uploaded file is indeed a shapefile. This can be checked by importing the file into Mapshaper to see if it displays a map. Additionally, ensure the shapefile is projected by loading the shapefile into Mapshaper and typing -proj wgs84 into the command bar. An error message will appear if there’s no projection.

For further assistance, please contact me at colin@redistricter.com.