In this case, the name of the district is the congressional district number. There is a name field, but it contains the name of the elected representative from that district:
@app.route('/nba/api/v0.1/district/<dist>', methods=['GET'])def get_district_name(dist): districts = session.query(District).filter(District.district.like(dist+"%")).all() data = [{"type": "Feature", "properties":{"district":district.district,"id":district.id, "representative":district.name}, "geometry":{"type":"MultiPolygon", "coordinates":shapely.geometry.geo.mapping(to_shape(district.geom))["coordinates"]}, } for district in districts] return jsonify({"type": "FeatureCollection","features":data})
All of these methods can be adjusted to ...
