[Talk-us] 2010 Census and Tiger

[Paul Fox]

russ wrote:
 > 
 > On May 27, 2009, at 2:45 PM, Dave Hansen wrote:
 ...
 > > 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!

does that imply that the tiger quality should go _way_ up after
this census?  i wonder how the gps track data (if they had the foresight
to keep it) might be used.

paul
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 paul fox, pgf at foxharp.boston.ma.us (arlington, ma, where it's 49.1 degrees)