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! -- Russ Nelson - http://community.cloudmade.com/blog - http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/User:RussNelson r...@cloudmade.com - Twitter: Russ_OSM - http://openstreetmap.org/user/RussNelson _______________________________________________ Talk-us mailing list Talk-us@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-us
