[Talk-us] identifying TIGER deserts

[Michal Migurski]

Absolutely, yeah.

I chose a raster approach to the data I was working with because I imagined it would be easiest to adapt to arbitrary jurisdictions, whether adopt-a-pixel or masked by a county boundary. Easy to track buckets of data over time that way, too.

-mike.

On Dec 7, 2012, at 10:38 AM, Martijn van Exel wrote:

> This would also fit in really well with the data steward notion. Part
> of the idea that we've been toying with for this is to have data
> dashboards for the stewarded areas to support targeted fixing /
> improving and to build a stronger local discussion and community
> around data > information > knowledge.
> 
> On Fri, Dec 7, 2012 at 11:32 AM, Michal Migurski <mike at teczno.com> wrote:
>> my intent for this is to produce county-by-county views that GIS managers in different jurisdictions can use to understand whether their data is worth
> 
> 
> 
> -- 
> Martijn van Exel
> http://oegeo.wordpress.com/
> http://openstreetmap.us/
> 

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