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Include tract info in Block Group header box "name" area

Open JoeGermuska opened this issue 8 years ago • 1 comments

As correctly noted in UserVoice #344, our block group profile pages don't provide the key contextual information about which tract they're in, leaving people to decode the geoid to know the tract.

Ideas:

  • Blow out the "name" value to include the tract. Cons: much longer than all other geo names, would probably have bad design consequences
  • Special case: when rendering the header box, recognize block groups (sumlevel 150) and extract the tract from the GeoID and add it in a subsidiary type treatment near the main "name"
  • Include the tract in the list of containing geographies (where it arguably should be anyway) and see if that's an adequate solution.

JoeGermuska avatar Dec 04 '17 22:12 JoeGermuska

@ryanpitts do you still think about this? thinking about using this as a warm-up exercise for the new student developers.

JoeGermuska avatar Nov 12 '18 21:11 JoeGermuska