Add mild shading to Oakland part of map

[evanwolf]

I don't know East Bay geography well enough to tell which parts are Oakland and which are Emeryville, Alameda, San Leandro, Berkeley, Contra Costa, etc. Could we add a 10% gray to Oakland ZIP code backgrounds for clarity?

[elinaru]

Good idea. The hover color applied to zip code areas is light grey (#F0F0F0), so how about we outline Oakland proper with our dark green color, so that hover continues to work as-is?

[evanwolf]

Borders! Sure, a stronger Oakland border works for me.

[lla2105]

Vivian tried the stronger borders but it she said it didn't look good.

[evanwolf]

I meant a dark green as Elina mentioned. It shouldn't muddy things like doubling line thickness.

[lla2105]

@vbrown608 what do you think?

[elinaru]

I don't think we should increase the width of the borders, just encircle the Oakland city border in green on individual candidate maps. On the overview map, the green may not show up as well. If that happens, maybe we can try a black outline for Oakland. Final call is VIvian's, of course.

[tbarreca]

Great suggestion! Sounds so simple and reasonable!

Unfortunately, however, I suspect that it will be difficult, and perhaps prohibitively so, to do for a straightforward reason: Zip code boundaries don't map precisely to the jurisdictional boundaries of the municipalities you enumerate.

For example, I have certain knowledge that the 94611 zip code covers parts of Oakland and Piedmont. I would be more surprised than not if this pattern was not typical. For example, I'd bet good money that Emeryville and Oakland share a zip code or two, and maybe even Alameda and Oakland. Does anyone know?

This is my hypothesis, but certainly there are some among us more knowledgeable than I, and they may know for sure.

On Fri, Sep 5, 2014 at 1:48 PM, Phil Wolff [email protected] wrote:

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I don't know East Bay geography well enough to tell which parts are Oakland and which are Emeryville, Alameda, San Leandro, Berkeley, Contra Costa, etc. Could we add a 10% gray to Oakland ZIP code backgrounds for clarity?

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[evanwolf]

@tbarreca Pretty sure we can add a border using City geometry vs. ZIP.

[evanwolf]

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