Federal, provincial, territorial boundary set name migration

[jpmckinney]

Represent's federal, provincial and territorial boundary sets originally had names like 'Federal electoral districts'. However, these jurisdictions modify their boundaries following formal processes at regular intervals. In order to have permanent and unambiguous names, Represent is transitioning towards adding suffixes like (2013 Representation Order), (Representation Act, 2005), (2015 Redistribution), etc. to the name.

The suffixes are based on each jurisdiction's most common way of referring to the boundary modification.

The boundary sets aren't being renamed immediately to avoid disrupting API users who have hardcoded the current names.

Instead, whenever the boundaries change, we take that opportunity to add suffixes to all boundary
sets for that jurisdiction.

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Steps:

1. Open the old set's definition.py file, like boundaries/ocd-division/country-ca/2013/definition.py
2. The appropriate suffix to the name is staged as a comment in the file
   • For some, we only found long references to commissions like Electoral Boundaries Commission or Electoral Divisions Boundaries Commission, so we simply used the year like (2010) instead of something like (2008 Redistribution)
3. Add a singular parameter to the definition, like singular='Federal electoral district',
   • This change is staged
4. Commit and push your changes
5. Update the old set, like fab alpheus update_boundaries:args="-d data/shapefiles/public/boundaries/ocd-division/country:ca/2013"
6. In the Django admin, delete the old set with the old name, like 'Federal electoral districts'

Transitioned:

• NT
• SK
• BC transition 'British Columbia electoral districts' to 'British Columbia electoral districts (2008 Redistribution)' after election on 2017-05-09
• ON: 'Ontario electoral districts' to 'Ontario electoral districts (Representation Act 2005)' after election on 2018-06-07
• QC: 'Quebec electoral districts' to 'Quebec electoral districts (2011)' after election on 2018-10-01
• AB: 'Alberta electoral districts' to 'Alberta electoral districts (2010)' after election on 2019-04-16
• PE: 'Prince Edward Island electoral districts' to 'Prince Edward Island electoral districts (2006)' after election on 2019-04-23
• MB: 'Manitoba electoral districts' to 'Manitoba electoral districts (2008)' after election on 2020-10-06
• NS: 'Nova Scotia electoral districts' to 'Nova Scotia electoral districts (2012)' sometime after 2022 (first election after new boundaries)
  • It was less than 10 years, perhaps due to the court challenge: https://nselectoralboundaries.ca/sites/default/files/electoral_boundaries_2019_english_web.pdf
• NB: 'New Brunswick electoral districts' to 'New Brunswick electoral districts (2013)' sometime after 2021 (first election after new boundaries)
• CA: 'Federal electoral districts' to 'Federal electoral districts (2013 Representation Order)' sometime after 2023 (first election after new boundaries)
• NL: 'Newfoundland and Labrador electoral districts' to 'Newfoundland and Labrador electoral districts (2015)' sometime after ???? (first election after new boundaries)

Note that with municipal boundaries, we only ever use the most recent boundaries, because it's hard to track the formal processes, and it would be a lot of work to maintain even if we could track those processes.

[jpmckinney]

NB done in 2022.

[jpmckinney]

CA done except last step (waiting until after election):

In the Django admin, delete the old set with the old name, like 'Federal electoral districts'