Had something to do with downloading the shape files from the census site, then using a positioning gadget in Postgres, or something like that, to determine which tract the point was in.
Matt Larsen vistabeam.com Jon Auer wrote: > Do you know what he is using to do the census tract lookup? > > On Mon, Aug 24, 2009 at 2:03 PM, Matt Larsen - Lists<li...@manageisp.com> > wrote: > >> Martha Huizenga wrote: >> >>> Hi, >>> >>> I thought there was a way to get Census Tract info in batch, but the web >>> site I thought I used last time gives me Lat and Long. Can anyone >>> suggest a free site? >>> >>> Thanks! >>> >>> Martha >>> >>> >> I don't know of any free sites that will do a batch of addresses, some >> out there will do a few at a time. >> >> My lead tech wrote a program that takes a batch of customer/GPS >> coordinates and returns the census tract information for each. We will >> actually get our 477 filed this time. >> >> Matt Larsen >> vistabeam.com >> >> >> >> -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- >> 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/ -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 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/
