Where to find Nassau County and Suffolk County Legislative Districts Shapefiles

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12-03-2012 07:31 AM
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Nanobi_
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I'm having difficulty finding Shapefiles for Nassau and Suffolk County (Long Island, NY) Legislative Districts. While both government sites provide a map (Nassau  |  Suffolk) of the district boundaries, they do not provide political and/or administrative Shapefiles, similar to the resources provided by NYC.gov.  I tried searching the Shapefiles provided by Census.gov, however county-based legislative district files weren't available.

Do you have any suggestions on where I can find these types of Shapefiles?

Any assistance you can provide is greatly appreciated.
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DanielYawitz
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Hey Nanobi -

I'm trying to find these files too... did you ever get a hold of them?
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PeterHoffman
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Here is a link to our portal location for Suffolk County Electoral Districts:

http://gisportal.suffolkcountyny.gov/home/item.html?id=cdb397f46b7245e5bcb3c78ba65572c7

We do not have metadata yet.
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Nanobi_
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dyawitz - Unfortunately, I wasn't able to find a shapefile for either county.

phoffman35 - I really like your Suffolk County GIS portal.
I have a large data set. So, I wouldn't be able to use your "Who is my Legislator" search tool to look up all the addresses. Are you able to make your legislative district boundary layer available for download?
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PeterHoffman
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Try this link and put in legislative as a search word.

https://gisportal.suffolkcountyny.gov/gis/home/search.html?q=legislative&t=content
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MichaelVolz
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Peter:

I see you have Pictometry images accessible through your application.  Was this a tool (widget) that you built yourself or did a third-party build this tool for you?

Is there an Owner Search available in your public application?
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PeterHoffman
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We are using adobe flash as our developing environment, the pictometry viewer that works with our data, I believe we got it from Pictometry.

This viewer has more capabilities under tax map search, pick search by last name:

http://gis2.suffolkcountyny.gov/gisviewer/
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MichaelVolz
Esteemed Contributor
Thank you Peter.

I just performed a search for a common name Murphy (I could not enter the first name) and it returned over 800 records which is a lot of records to wade through.  Have you ever thought of adding the first name to the search, so you do not return as many records?  I have worked with the eSearch widget built by Robert Scheitlin and it was fairly easy to create this more targeted search.
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PeterHoffman
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That is from eSearch. Can you send me relevant code for adding first name?
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MichaelVolz
Esteemed Contributor
Peter:

Here is the sample eSearchWidget.xml that worked for me:

<expression alias="Owner">
      <values>
          <value prompt="Example: Smith John" isvaluerequired="true">upper(OWN1) LIKE upper('%[value]%') OR  upper(OWN2) LIKE upper('%[value]%')</value>
      </values>
</expression>

The big caveat is the storage format of your data.  If you have ownership information in 1 field you could perform this search on the same field twice so if Last Name is the beginning part of this field's value would capture it with the Like and % on the first statement and if the Last Name is the ending part of this field's value would capture it with the Like and % on the second statement.

If your ownership information is in multiple fields that you would just put the appropriate fields in each section of the query.  It all depends how your data is stored.

I would also allow the user to input the village/town where they think the owner lives.  I would have a list of all villages/towns in Suffolk County and have an empty string as well if the person searching does not know the town.
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