[Talk-us] Tiger US address importing

Chris Lawrence lordsutch at gmail.com
Tue Sep 22 07:57:15 BST 2009


On Fri, Sep 18, 2009 at 7:31 AM, Mike N. <niceman at att.net> wrote:
>   Just a thought - the 2009 census survey included workers going to every
> dwelling with a GPS to confirm type of occupancy.   If (*big if*) they
> release the GPS coordinates plus street address, this is likely to be much
> more accurate than Tiger 2008 data, if my county is any indication.

The Census Bureau is very unlikely to release specific
latitude/longitude info for each address due to privacy issues;
however, they probably will fix at least some of the interpolation
ranges either based on the field collection or updates from local
governments.


Chris




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