We had to deal with 38 records and 22 census tracts. marlon ----- Original Message ----- From: "David E. Smith" <d...@mvn.net> To: "WISPA General List" <wireless@wispa.org> Sent: Monday, March 16, 2009 1:55 PM Subject: Re: [WISPA] WAS: speaking of ARIN now 477
> Marlon K. Schafer wrote: > >> We had almost 7000 square miles of coverage to deal with. I don't know >> how >> many census tracts we had but there were roughly a dozen zip codes >> before. > > We went from about twenty-five ZIPs to.. about twenty-five census > tracts. There was basically no correlation between the two, of course. > > Even after paying someone to geo-code our customer list, we still had to > review about half our customers and assign them tracts by hand. (If your > customer base is heavily urbanized, I imagine you could automatically > geocode a lot more customers; we have a lot of "Rural Route" addresses, > which tend to get put in comically wrong places.) > > At least next time around it'll be less painful. (We're retaining the > customer-census associations, so we'll only have to manually map our new > customers. This will work until, say, 2012 or so, when they draw up new > tracts based on the 2010 census.) > > David Smith > MVN.net > > > > -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- > WISPA Wants You! Join today! > http://signup.wispa.org/ > -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- > > WISPA Wireless List: wireless@wispa.org > > Subscribe/Unsubscribe: > http://lists.wispa.org/mailman/listinfo/wireless > > Archives: http://lists.wispa.org/pipermail/wireless/ -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- WISPA Wants You! Join today! http://signup.wispa.org/ -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- WISPA Wireless List: wireless@wispa.org Subscribe/Unsubscribe: http://lists.wispa.org/mailman/listinfo/wireless Archives: http://lists.wispa.org/pipermail/wireless/
