I am a Geographic Information Systems Certified Professional (GISP) and I am experienced in working with Cartography & Maps, Data Processing, Data Science, Google Maps API, ESRI REST data management, and Geospatial analysis reports, along with PYTHON programming and coding.
I am confident that I can deliver the project in under 7 days but added in some flex time for any issues that may pop up. Having said that, the snapping of points to the line is no problem. The merging of the attribute data is more challenging depending on the structure of the data sets being merged, but is also able to accomplished. Lastly the production of the 52 shapefiles is likely the simplest part of all since Python does the majority of the hard work there.
I would like to know:
1) if all of the regions are within the two original shapefiles or are there 2 shapefiles per region?
2) is all of the attribute data uniform (do attribute fields have similar naming conventions, do files contain similar number of fields, etc)?
3) would it be possible to get an example of the two files now?
I think that my skill set and your project needs with respect to Geospatial PYTHON processing are a good match. Please take a look at my portfolio for work examples incorporating Python scripting and GIS analysis and feel free to contact me with any questions or further information you may have. I am also able to provide further work examples (beyond those in my portfolio), and or references as may be necessary