civic-data-boundaries-us-cd118

U.S. Civic Boundary Data for Civic Interconnect, including boundaries for the 118th U.S. Congressional Districts.

This package provides and hosts standardized U.S. boundary GeoJSON and shapefile-derived layers from TIGER/Line shapefiles, including:

• Boundaries for the 118th Congressional Districts (CD118)
• Support for OCD IDs and simplified formats
• GeoJSON files and manifest indexes for civic data pipelines

GeoJSON files and indexes are generated for use in civic data pipelines.

For state and county boundaries, see civic-data-boundaries-us.

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Installation

uv add civic-data-boundaries-us-cd118
#or
pip install civic-data-boundaries-us-cd118

Or add to pyproject.toml dependencies: "civic-data-boundaries-us-cd118"

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Data

This repository hosts pre-generated GeoJSON output in data-out/ for direct use in apps, agents, and public mapping tools.

File	Description
index.json	List of all available GeoJSON files with bbox & feature counts
manifest.json	Dataset metadata (source, license, timestamps, totals)
states/<state>/<file>.geojson	Per-state boundary files
national/cd118_us.geojson	Entire U.S. (all congressional districts)

Example: Load from Python

import requests
import geopandas as gpd

URL = "https://raw.githubusercontent.com/civic-interconnect/civic-data-boundaries-us-cd118/refs/heads/main/data-out/states/minnesota/cd118_minnesota.geojson"

gdf = gpd.read_file(URL)
print(gdf.head())

Example: Load in JavaScript (Leaflet / MapLibre)

const url = "https://raw.githubusercontent.com/civic-interconnect/civic-data-boundaries-us-cd118/refs/heads/main/data-out/national/cd118_us.geojson";

fetch(url)
  .then(r => r.json())
  .then(data => {
    L.geoJSON(data).addTo(map);
  });

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Development

See DEVELOPER.md

Pipeline

Fetch

• Downloads TIGER zip files
• Skips files already present

Extract

• Unzips shapefiles into folders
• Skips folders already extracted

Export

• Reads shapefiles
• Writes chunked GeoJSON files suitable for GH hosting

Cleanup

• Removes original .zip files and extracted shapefiles once chunked GeoJSONs are complete

References

• Census TIGER/Line 2022

Direct URLs for the TIGER/Line shapefiles (2022):

• U.S. States: https://www2.census.gov/geo/tiger/TIGER2022/STATE/tl_2022_us_state.zip
• U.S. Counties: https://www2.census.gov/geo/tiger/TIGER2022/COUNTY/tl_2022_us_county.zip
• 118th Congressional Districts: https://www2.census.gov/geo/tiger/TIGER2022/CD/tl_2022_us_cd118.zip