NC Census Map
From charlesreid1
MY goal in making this map of North Carolina was to gain more familiarity with the Census Reporter API, and start to dig down past the county level, to the zip code, area code, and census tract levels.
Starting Point
State and County Data
I started out with some code I wrote for my Census Map, which grabbed California county information, except this time I wrote a code that would turn state names and abbreviations into FIPS codes (here: http://www.census.gov/geo/reference/ansi_statetables.html), necessary to obtain geographic information from the Census Bureau or from Census Reporter, whose lovely API I was using.
Further Sub-Levels
Via the Census Bureau's own technical documentation, http://www.census.gov/prod/cen2010/doc/sf1.pdf (it is very extensive), we can obtain the following geographical entity hierarchy:
