You'll need to have wget, gdal, and R installed to download and create the maps. Then just run

$ make

If something went wrong with the downloading, use:

$ make clean

and try again after a few hours

Since the scripts download a whole bunch of maps it may take a while to finish

In the map-out directory you'll find

• distritos: Shapefile of the electoral distritos (districts)
• secciones-inegi: Shapefile of electoral secciones (precincts) with both the ife and inegi codes for the municipalities each seccion belongs to
• estados: Shapefile of the Mexican states
• localidades: Shapefiles of the rural localities and the polygons of the urban ones
• municipios: Shapefile of the counties of Mexico
• rdata-secciones: serialized secciones (precincts) map as an R object

Since the IFE uses a different coding standard for the municipalities of Mexico than the INEGI, I've recoded the municipality codes so that they match the ones the INEGI uses.

Ecatepec, México according to the INEGI is 15 033, while according to the IFE it's 15 034
Guadalajara, Jalisco according to the INEGI is 14 039, while according to the IFE it's 14 041

These codes are only available for the secciones electorales (precincts) shapefile and they are contained in the variables:

• MUN_INEGI: The inegi municipio codes
• MUN_IFE: The original ife municipio codes that came with the file

The codebook for the the census data that comes with the shapefiles is in the FD_SECC_IFE.pdf file and the ife and inegi codes are in the ife.to.inegi.csv file

Author:

Diego Valle-Jones