Web map to show snow removal priority streets in Lexington, KY

To create map from shapefile

Filter the features

• Open shapefile in QGIS
• Open attributes table
• Select features using an expression "WHERE snow IS NOT NULL"
• Select all
• Save Selection as new layer
• Save layer as snow-priority-specified.geojson

Create TopoJSON file from shapefile

TopoJSON is an extension of GeoJSON that encodes topology so the dataset loads more quickly over a network.

topojson -o snow-plan-specified.topo.json --simplify-proportion .5 --properties snow snow-priority-specified.geojson

Contributors

Big thanks to Chris Doerge and the GIS team at LFUCG for providing the data and helping to understand it.