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« Reply #25 on: July 31, 2009, 12:41:05 AM »

Many of the names presented are fail. muon seems to understand how this works, though.


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« Reply #26 on: July 31, 2009, 03:53:47 PM »

Many of the names presented are fail. muon seems to understand how this works, though.

Do I?
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« Reply #27 on: July 31, 2009, 03:56:57 PM »

Pennsylvania

PA-01: Philadelphia East and Southwest
PA-02: Philadelphia North and West
PA-03: Northwestern Pennsylvania- Erie
PA-04: Northern Pittsburgh Suburbs
PA-05: North Central PA- State College
PA-06: Western Philadelphia Suburbs- Norristown
PA-07: Southwestern Philadelphia Suburbs- Media
PA-08: Northern Philadelphia Suburbs- Doylestown
PA-09: West South Central Pennsylvania- Altoona
PA-10: Far Northeastern Pennsylvania- Williamsport, Eastern Poconos
PA-11: Lower Northeastern Pennsylvania- Scranton, Hazelton, Stroudsburg
PA-12:  MURTHASTAN.  No kidding! Southwestern Pennsylvania- Johnstown, Uniontown
PA-13: Northeast Philadelphia-Eastern Montgomery
PA-14: Greater Pittsburgh
PA-15: Lehigh Valley-  Allentown, Bethlehem, Easton
PA-16: (East South Central/Outer Southeast?) Pennsylvania- West Chester, Lancaster
PA-17: East Central Pennsylvania- Harrisburg, Pottsville
PA-18: Southern Pittsburgh Suburbs
PA-19: South Central Pennsylvania- York, Gettysburg   
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« Reply #28 on: July 31, 2009, 04:51:39 PM »

Many of the names presented are fail. muon seems to understand how this works, though.

Do I?

Somewhat, although one should never use a direction before a name, unless that is a common name for the area. In Canada, only one riding starts with a direction (South Surrey). They rest end in a direction. Otherwise, they're decent names. Love the emdashes!
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« Reply #29 on: July 31, 2009, 05:07:59 PM »
« Edited: August 03, 2009, 08:28:16 PM by Verily »

NY-01: Suffolk Outer
NY-02: Suffolk Inner
NY-03: Levittown and Islip
NY-04: Hempstead
NY-05: Great Neck and Queens Flushing
NY-06: Queens Jamaica
NY-07: Bronx East and Queens Elmhurst
NY-08: Manhattan West and Brooklyn Gravesend
NY-09: Brooklyn Marine Park, Queens Woodhaven and Rockaway
NY-10: Brooklyn Bedford-Stuyvesant and New Lots
NY-11: Brooklyn Prospect Park
NY-12: Brooklyn Williamsburg and Greenwood
NY-13: Staten Island and Brooklyn Bay Ridge
NY-14: Manhattan East and Queens Astoria
NY-15: Manhattan North
NY-16: Bronx South
NY-17: Bronx North and Rockland
NY-18: Westchester (alternatively, White Plains)
NY-19: Hudson Valley South
NY-20: Hudson Valley North
NY-21: Albany and Schenectady
NY-22: Kingston and Ithaca
NY-23: Watertown and the Adirondacks
NY-24: Utica and Auburn (I don't know, this district sucks)
NY-25: Syracuse
NY-26: Batavia
NY-27: Buffalo
NY-28: Rochester and Niagara Falls
NY-29: Southern Tier
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« Reply #30 on: July 31, 2009, 05:19:29 PM »

"outer" and "inner" should never be used in constituency names. I don't think they do that in the UK, do they?
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« Reply #31 on: July 31, 2009, 05:20:56 PM »

The idiots at the boundary commision have started to, alas. Still rare though.
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« Reply #32 on: July 31, 2009, 05:34:39 PM »

Massachusetts

MA1 - Massachusetts West-Montachusett
MA2 - Springfield-Northampton-South County-Blackstone Valley
MA3 - Worcester-Middlesex-Norfolk-Bristol
MA4 - South Coast-Boston Southwest
MA5 - Merrimack Valley
MA6 - North Shore
MA7 - Boston North-Framingham
MA8 - Boston-Chelsea-Middlesex
MA 9 - Boston South
MA10 - South Shore-Cape Cod-The Islands
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« Reply #33 on: July 31, 2009, 05:40:32 PM »

That reminds me...I used that applet to create UK sized consituencies for some states - need to remember to post them.
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« Reply #34 on: July 31, 2009, 07:31:44 PM »
« Edited: July 31, 2009, 07:33:31 PM by Verily »

"outer" and "inner" should never be used in constituency names. I don't think they do that in the UK, do they?

York Outer is a constituency on the new UK map. Plus, Suffolk Outer and Suffolk Inner describe the two seats better than Suffolk East and Suffolk West, which doesn't capture that the eastern seat is rural and exurban while the western seat is suburban.
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« Reply #35 on: July 31, 2009, 08:15:58 PM »

CT 1 - Hartford-Litchfield Hills
CT 2 - Connecticut East
CT 3 - Connecticut South Central
CT 4 - Connecticut Panhandle
CT 5 - Connecticut Northwest
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« Reply #36 on: July 31, 2009, 08:39:52 PM »

PA 1 - South Philadelphia-Delaware
PA 2 - West Philadelphia-Cheltenham
PA 3 - Pennsylvania Northwest
PA 4 - Lawrence-Mercer-Pittsburgh North
PA 5 - Pennsylvania North Central
PA 6 - Montgomery-Chester-Berks-Lehigh
PA 7 - Delaware-Chester-Montgomery
PA 8 - Bucks-Montgomery-Philadelphia
PA 9 - Pennsylvania South Central
PA 10 - Pennsylvania North East
PA 11 - Coal Region-Monroe
PA 12 - Pennsylvania Southwest
PA 13 - Montgomery-Philadelphia
PA 14 - Pittsburgh
PA 15 - Lehigh Valley-Montgomery
PA 16 - Lancaster-Chester-Berks
PA 17 - Dutch Country-Schuykill
PA 18 - Washington-Allegheny-Westmoreland
PA 19 - York-Adams-Cumberland
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« Reply #37 on: July 31, 2009, 09:21:20 PM »

PA 1 - South Philadelphia-Delaware
PA 2 - West Philadelphia-Cheltenham
PA 3 - Pennsylvania Northwest
PA 4 - Lawrence-Mercer-Pittsburgh North
PA 5 - Pennsylvania North Central
PA 6 - Montgomery-Chester-Berks-Lehigh
PA 7 - Delaware-Chester-Montgomery
PA 8 - Bucks-Montgomery-Philadelphia
PA 9 - Pennsylvania South Central
PA 10 - Pennsylvania North East
PA 11 - Coal Region-Monroe
PA 12 - Pennsylvania Southwest
PA 13 - Montgomery-Philadelphia
PA 14 - Pittsburgh
PA 15 - Lehigh Valley-Montgomery
PA 16 - Lancaster-Chester-Berks
PA 17 - Dutch Country-Schuykill
PA 18 - Washington-Allegheny-Westmoreland
PA 19 - York-Adams-Cumberland

PA 17 is not really Dutch Country, but it has some elements.  The heart of Dutch Country is in PA 16.  PA 17 could be called "Capital Region-Berks-Schuykill"
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« Reply #38 on: August 01, 2009, 12:17:36 AM »

NY 1 - Suffolk East
NY 2 - Suffolk West-Plainview
NY 3 - Nassau East-South Shore
NY 4 - Nassau South
NY 5 - North Shore Long Island
NY 6 - Queens Southeast
NY 7 - Queens-Bronx
NY 8 - West Side-Brooklyn
NY 9 - Brooklyn-Queens
NY 10 - Brooklyn Northeast
NY 11 - Brooklyn Center
NY 12 - Brooklyn-Queens-Lower East Side
NY 13 - Staten Island-Brooklyn
NY 14 - East Side-Queens
NY 15 - Upper Manhattan-Queens
NY 16 - Bronx West
NY 17 - Rockland-Westchester-Bronx
NY 18 - Westchester-Rockland
NY 19 - Lower Hudson Valley
NY 20 - Upper Hudson Valley-Catskills
NY 21 - Capital District
NY 22 - Catskills-Finger Lakes
NY 23 - Adirondacks-Seaway
NY 24 - New York Central
NY 25 - Syracuse-Lake Ontario
NY 26 - New York West
NY 27 - Erie-Chautauqua
NY 28 - Buffalo-Niagara-Lake Ontario-Rochester
NY 29 - Southern Tier-Finger Lakes
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« Reply #39 on: August 01, 2009, 12:18:49 AM »

PA 1 - South Philadelphia-Delaware
PA 2 - West Philadelphia-Cheltenham
PA 3 - Pennsylvania Northwest
PA 4 - Lawrence-Mercer-Pittsburgh North
PA 5 - Pennsylvania North Central
PA 6 - Montgomery-Chester-Berks-Lehigh
PA 7 - Delaware-Chester-Montgomery
PA 8 - Bucks-Montgomery-Philadelphia
PA 9 - Pennsylvania South Central
PA 10 - Pennsylvania North East
PA 11 - Coal Region-Monroe
PA 12 - Pennsylvania Southwest
PA 13 - Montgomery-Philadelphia
PA 14 - Pittsburgh
PA 15 - Lehigh Valley-Montgomery
PA 16 - Lancaster-Chester-Berks
PA 17 - Dutch Country-Schuykill
PA 18 - Washington-Allegheny-Westmoreland
PA 19 - York-Adams-Cumberland

PA 17 is not really Dutch Country, but it has some elements.  The heart of Dutch Country is in PA 16.  PA 17 could be called "Capital Region-Berks-Schuykill"

That might work. I was going by Wikipedia's definition of regions, since that's all I have to base some of these places.
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« Reply #40 on: August 01, 2009, 01:03:20 AM »

NJ 1 - Camden-Gloucester-Burlington
NJ 2 - South Jersey
NJ 3 - Burlington-Ocean-Cherry Hill
NJ 4 - Burlington-Monmouth-Mercer-Ocean
NJ 5 - Bergen-Passaic-Sussex-Warren
NJ 6 - Monmouth-Sussex-Franklin-Plainfield
NJ 7 - Hunterdon-Middlesex-Somerset-Union
NJ 8 - Essex-Passaic
NJ 9 - Bergen-Hudson-Hawthorne
NJ 10 - Essex-Hudson-Union
NJ 11 - Skylands
NJ 12 - Central Jersey
NJ 13 - Hudson-Middlesex-Essex-Newark
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« Reply #41 on: August 01, 2009, 01:10:58 AM »

MD 1 - Eastern Shore-Anne Arundel-Baltimore-Harford
MD 2 - Baltimore-Chesapeake
MD 3 - Baltimore-Anne Arundel-Harford
MD 4 - Prince George's-Montgomery
MD 5 - Maryland South-Capital
MD 6 - Maryland West
MD 7 - Baltimore-Howard
MD 8 - Capital North
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« Reply #42 on: August 01, 2009, 02:38:32 AM »

better names than the major cities for WV?

WV 1 - Parkersburg-Morgantown
WV 2 – Charleston-Martinsburg
WV 3 – Huntington-Bluefield
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« Reply #43 on: August 01, 2009, 04:18:46 AM »
« Edited: August 01, 2009, 04:25:35 AM by Lief »

Here's my (probably mediocre) shot at Texas. Is there a certain order the locations are supposed to go in in a constituency name? From biggest to smallest or from west to east or something?

TX-01: Tyler-Longview
TX-02: Beaumont-Port Arthur-Houston Northeast
TX-03: Plano-Dallas Northeast
TX-04: Rayburn (or Sherman-Paris-Texarkana, if you want to be boring)
TX-05: Dallas Southeast-Jacksonville
TX-06: Dallas Southwest-Crockett
TX-07: Houston West
TX-08: The Woodlands-Beaumont North
TX-09: Houston South
TX-10: East Central Texas
TX-11: West Central Texas
TX-12: Fort Worth West
TX-13: Texas Panhandle-Wichita Falls
TX-14: Texas Coastal Bend North
TX-15: South Central Texas
TX-16: El Paso
TX-17: Waco-College Station
TX-18: Houston Center
TX-19: Lubbock-Abilene
TX-20: San Antonio
TX-21: Texas Hill Country
TX-22: Sugarland-Houston Southeast
TX-23: Southwest Texas
TX-24: Fort Worth East-Dallas West
TX-25: Austin
TX-26: Denton
TX-27: Texas Coastal Bend South
TX-28: Laredo-San Antonio South
TX-29: Houston East-Baytown
TX-30: Dallas Center and South
TX-31: Round Rock-Killeen
TX-32: Dallas North
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« Reply #44 on: August 01, 2009, 09:39:40 AM »

Here's my (probably mediocre) shot at Texas. Is there a certain order the locations are supposed to go in in a constituency name? From biggest to smallest or from west to east or something?


I think it's usually bigger to smaller, but I'm not 100% sure to be honest (for Canada, anyways). Sometimes it's in geographical order as well (Glengarry-Prescott-Russell comes to mind).
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« Reply #45 on: August 01, 2009, 09:59:00 AM »

VA 1 - Chesepeake
VA 2 - Peninsula-Hampton Roads-Virginia Beach
VA 3 - James River
VA 4 - Virginia Southeast
VA 5 - Virginia South Central
VA 6 - Roanoke-Lynchburg-Shenandoah
VA 7 - Richmond-Appalachia
VA 8 - Arlington-Fairfax-Alexandria-Falls Church
VA 9 - Virginia Southwest
VA 10 - Virginia North
VA 11 - Fairfax-Prince William
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« Reply #46 on: August 01, 2009, 10:06:35 AM »

NJ 1 - Camden-Gloucester-Burlington
NJ 2 - South Jersey
NJ 3 - Burlington-Ocean-Cherry Hill
NJ 4 - Burlington-Monmouth-Mercer-Ocean
NJ 5 - Bergen-Passaic-Sussex-Warren
NJ 6 - Monmouth-Sussex-Franklin-Plainfield
NJ 7 - Hunterdon-Middlesex-Somerset-Union
NJ 8 - Essex-Passaic
NJ 9 - Bergen-Hudson-Hawthorne
NJ 10 - Essex-Hudson-Union
NJ 11 - Skylands
NJ 12 - Central Jersey
NJ 13 - Hudson-Middlesex-Essex-Newark

Skylands is kind of a stretch to call the Morris County based 11, but I like these.  What do you think of the ones I did?  I'll admit I don't know much about this. Tongue
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« Reply #47 on: August 01, 2009, 10:15:35 AM »

NJ 1 - Camden-Gloucester-Burlington
NJ 2 - South Jersey
NJ 3 - Burlington-Ocean-Cherry Hill
NJ 4 - Burlington-Monmouth-Mercer-Ocean
NJ 5 - Bergen-Passaic-Sussex-Warren
NJ 6 - Monmouth-Sussex-Franklin-Plainfield
NJ 7 - Hunterdon-Middlesex-Somerset-Union
NJ 8 - Essex-Passaic
NJ 9 - Bergen-Hudson-Hawthorne
NJ 10 - Essex-Hudson-Union
NJ 11 - Skylands
NJ 12 - Central Jersey
NJ 13 - Hudson-Middlesex-Essex-Newark

Skylands is kind of a stretch to call the Morris County based 11, but I like these.  What do you think of the ones I did?  I'll admit I don't know much about this. Tongue

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Not too bad actually, but I'm not a fan of using singular names for regions that encompass a greater area. And also, directionals should not precede the district name (South Jersey being an exception).
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« Reply #48 on: August 03, 2009, 07:36:21 AM »


CA-1: Napa—North Coast
CA-2: Redding
CA-3: Outer Sacramento
CA-4: Northeast California
CA-5: Sacramento
CA-6: Marin—Sonoma
CA-7: Richmond—Vacaville
CA-8: San Francisco
CA-9: Oakland
CA-10: Fairfield—Livermore
CA-11: Dublin—Tracy
CA-12: San Mateo
CA-13: Alameda—Fremont
CA-14: Redwood City
CA-15: San Jose West
CA-16: San Jose East
CA-17: Monterey
CA-18: San Joaquin West
CA-19: Yosemite
CA-20: Fresno
CA-21: San Joaquin East
CA-22: Bakersfield
CA-23: Central Coast—Channel Islands
CA-24: Santa Ynez
CA-25: Inner California
CA-26: San Gabriel Valley
CA-27: San Fernando West
CA-28: San Fernando East
CA-29: Glendale—Pasadena
CA-30: Santa Monica
CA-31: Los Angeles Center
CA-32: East Los Angeles
CA-33: Culver City
CA-34: Huntington Park
CA-35: Inglewood
CA-36: Torrance—Venice
CA-37: Long Beach
CA-38: Norwalk—Pomona
CA-39: Lynwood
CA-40: Orange North
CA-41: Inland Empire
CA-42: Los Angeles—Orange
CA-43: San Bernardino
CA-44: Orange—Riverside
CA-45: Riverside
CA-46: Santa Catalina
CA-47: Santa Ana
CA-48: Orange South
CA-49: Oceanside—Temecula
CA-50: Escondido
CA-51: Chula Vista—Imperial
CA-52: San Diego East
CA-53: San Diego


Here are my changes for some of the California districts.

CA-3: Citrus Heights-Elk Grove
CA-9: Oakland-Berkeley
CA-10: Fairfield- Walnut Creek-Livermore
CA-11: Pleasanton-Tracy
CA-12: San Mateo-Daly City
CA-14: Sunnyvale-Redwood City
CA-17: Monterey-Santa Cruz
CA-18: Stockton-Modesto
CA-19: Fresno north-Turlock
CA-20: Fresno-Bakersfield east
CA-21: Clovis-Visalia
CA-22: Bakersfield-Lancaster
CA-23: Santa Barbara-Oxnard
CA-24: Thousand Oaks-Simi Valley
CA-25: Santa Clarita-Palmdale
CA-26: Rancho Cucamonga-Arcadia
CA-27: Burbank-San Fernando valley west
CA-28: San Fernando valley east
CA-30: Santa Monica- Los Angeles west
CA-31: Hollywood- Griffith park
CA-32: El Monte-West Covina
CA-33: Culver City- Miracle mile
CA-34: Downtown Los Angeles-Downey
CA-35: Los Angeles south-Inglewood
CA-37: Long Beach-Compton
CA-38: Norwalk-Pico Rivera-Pomona
CA-39: Whittier-Lakewood-South Gate
CA-40: Fullerton-Orange
CA-41: Redlands-Hesperia
CA-42: Mission Viejo-Yorba Linda-Chino valley
CA-43: San Bernardino-Ontario
CA-44: Riverside-Corona
CA-45: Palm Springs-Moreno Valley
CA-46: Huntington Beach-Westminster
CA-47: Santa Ana-Anaheim
CA-48: Irvine-Laguna
CA-50: Escondido-Carlsbad
CA-52: San Diego east- El Cajon



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« Reply #49 on: August 03, 2009, 11:33:17 AM »


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