Website Mission

Welcome to comaps.org, a resource of district information about the state of Colorado. The goal is to produce easier access to information and electoral maps than state agencies currently provide to better help people understand who their elected officials are. This site is in no way affiliated with the state of Colorado or any of the political parties within the state.

This site uses of Google Maps and the GIS Data that can be obtained from various government sources.  I do not claim complete accuracy of this data, but my best effort to improve both the presentation and access to this data.  There may be errors, and I do apologize in advance.  I would not suggest using this as your only source of information.  You can always contact your local county clerk, or Project VoteSmart.

The main links at the top of the page will direct you to dynamic maps where you can find your elected representatives from your address, or maps where you can enable single districts to display, similar to a normal GIS program. All of these are done in Google Maps, and should work with any modern broswer.

The bottom links will expand and take you directly to a single district webiste. In addition, there are some county commisioner maps and other district maps, such as the RTD district maps. Usnder each county and district site there are demographics that were available from the state, along with election results and the current representative of the district.

As a new feature, there are what I term Appendicies, which are collected demographics or history lists which are unavailable elsewhere. They are data which has been collected from the wide range of sources and compiled into a single information layer. At the moment there is a list of every state senator and reperesentative dating back to 1996, in the file termed Appendix A. Appendix B lists every referendum starting from 1990.

Updates

12/3/2009

Primary Time! I have received many notices from candidates and campaigns about adding their name to candidate lists, and I apologize for the delay. I am only one person, and clerical work is not the most pleasant job. However, this weekend the candidate database will have old names removed, new ones added, and I will hopefully confirm which incumbents are running. If any candidate wants their name added, please send me a email with name, party, district and candidate webpage to webmaster@comaps.org. To those who have already, thank you.
As an additional note, many candidate webpages have used the district maps provided here to show the district they are running for. Do not directly embed a page from this site within your webpage, or copy entire pages and host them as your own. Read the Data Availability section for more details, and it is always better to ask if unsure.

11/23/2009

New features - Appendix data. I've collected so much other data that doesn't really fit easily anywhere else, so I've decided to try an prepare most of it in easy to read formats. The first two are now available from the Appendix links on the side.

Appendix A is list of state legislators from 1996 to 2009, current as of this date. This includes all of the various appointments and resignations I could find, but possible not all of them.
Appendix B is a list of state referenda from 1990 to 2009, along with a brief description of what the amendments were about in case the descriptive title is not descriptive at all.

11/21/2009

So far, back to a relative normal. Apparently something was updated and broke the file type associations... or something like that. I will be migrating pages to the php extension to prevent this from happening again. This should change anything on the site functionality wise, but I will add redirects if it does. Thanks for your patience.

10/17/2009

Many, many updates. The most important is the new "Find Your District" page, now updates and cleaned for 2009. It uses the KML files like all of the other pages, plus each layer can be toggled on and off for identification. Please let me know of any error. All district pages were updated with current representatives, including the resignations over the last year. All KML files were updates, so they should accurately report color and representative names correctly now. The election information I will remove shortly from the scripts; it will not reappear until after the primaries next year in 2010.

10/08/2009

Major update of county maps. County webpages now include the option to add layers for any state house or state senate district within the borders of the county. I am also going through all of the files and updating the information contained in them, which is slightly late to do. But better late than never.

09/08/2009

2008 election data, except for county results and statewide ballot issues, are now on the site. In addition, demographic data for counties and ditsricts were updated as well. All of the district pages still need their updated format.

09/05/2009

All of the graphical redesign is complete except for the district pages. I will get to those shortly.

09/04/2009

Redesign since I haven't changed anything with the style since 2007. There are some more backend changes, and I'm finally getting around to adding more election data.

08/18/2009

To answer my two biggest questions, I added the Data Availability section below for number one. For number two, you can download boundary districts: I have the KML files for the state house and senate districts in the "Map Data Files" link. Those files work in Google Earth, and I'll add other file formats if anyone requests them. I have the data for any map that appears here - just ask if it isn't in the Map Data Files section.

Data Availability and Usage

Any data I have is from government sources and free for the taking. A large number of the elected officials in this state already use these maps on their election websites. If you wish to put one on your website as well, I request a link which states where it came from: this website. If you can't do that, a thank you note from the representative/senator would be equally as nice. Note: that does not mean you embed this web page in your own.