Every city in a county, each its own colour

Pick a county and every incorporated place in and around it is outlined in its own colour, with a clickable colour-keyed legend.

What it is

On a county pick, the county's actual bounding box (read off the drawn polygon, plus a margin so border-crossing cities are included) is used to query TIGER places. Up to 24 are drawn, each assigned a colour from a distinct palette, and listed as clickable chips. Clicking a chip looks up that city's permitting directly by place GEOID.

Also called: cities in this county · city overlay · permit legend

See it
Every city in a county, each its own colour
New lead 4
Marlin Hoover
$46k
Delia Yoder
$53k
Contacted 4
Sutter Kline
$64k
Ronan Petsch
$34k
Estimate 3
Ivy Brubaker
$64k
Gideon Alt
$39k
Marlin Hoover
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Sold 3
Marlin Hoover
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Delia Yoder
$58k
A blue county outline filled with a dozen differently-coloured city outlines, and the matching colour-dot chip list beneath the answer. PermitCheckPanel.tsx `drawCountyCities`. Sample data — no customer information appears here.
How it works
  1. 1The envelope comes from the already-drawn county polygon, not a guess
  2. 2Each feature carries its own `color` property and the layer styles from it
  3. 3The legend lists the places alphabetically with a colour dot
  4. 4Clicking a chip calls permitByFips(countyFips, placeGeoid)
  5. 5The overlay is best-effort — a failure leaves just the county border
Why we built it

A county answer is only half the picture when the county contains a dozen towns with their own rules. The legend caption states the doctrine on screen: 'Each colored outline on the map is a city. Click one for its permitting — city rules govern inside city limits; outside every city, the county rule applies.'

The problem
  • A county answer hides that towns inside it govern themselves
  • There is no way to compare neighbouring towns
Sound familiar?
What you get
The towns that differ are visible at a glance
One click gets each town's rule

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