[Talk-us] 2010 Census and Tiger

[Russ Nelson]

On May 27, 2009, at 2:45 PM, Dave Hansen wrote:

> On Wed, 2009-05-27 at 13:40 -0500, Doug Morrison-Cleary wrote:
>> I don't know what the base data source is, but I do know that the
>> current census work includes finding coordinates for every address/ 
>> house
>> in the country. A friend is busy currently checking and correcting  
>> the
>> work already done on this. I haven't asked him exactly how this is  
>> being
>> done and what sort of accuracy is expected.
>
> I did have someone from the census come by my house the other day.   
> They
> had a PDA and typed my answers to a few quick questions.  I think they
> verified my address and made sure that mine was the only dwelling on  
> the
> property.  I wonder if there was a GPS in the PDA that verified
> coordinates while they were on my porch.

Yes, and a cell data modem as well.  Harris got the contract to make  
them.  $600M for 100K census workers.  For $6000 each, they had BETTER  
have a GPS in them!

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