Comments on: Increasing U.S. Census Participation http://spatiallyadjusted.com/2010/02/04/increasing-census-participation/ Geospatial Technology, Web Mapping and Spatial Services Fri, 10 Feb 2012 19:09:18 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.com/ By: IT Solutions Blog » Highlights of Week 05/2010 http://spatiallyadjusted.com/2010/02/04/increasing-census-participation/#comment-13085 Mon, 29 Mar 2010 18:36:59 +0000 http://www.spatiallyadjusted.com/?p=3281#comment-13085 [...] Increasing U.S. Census Participation (by James Fee) – Census is coming up and the challenge will be to count the ‘hard to count’ population. [...]

]]> By: Nick http://spatiallyadjusted.com/2010/02/04/increasing-census-participation/#comment-13084 Tue, 09 Mar 2010 22:13:23 +0000 http://www.spatiallyadjusted.com/?p=3281#comment-13084 Let’s see if it helps get those response rates up. Of course it MIGHT be a waste of our tax dollars – but this is our Constitution and they are required to do this complete count (I’m a fan of sampling myself). Since we’re not done yet, let’s not rush to judgment; we don’t know it’s a waste just yet!

]]> By: Penny Pincher http://spatiallyadjusted.com/2010/02/04/increasing-census-participation/#comment-13083 Tue, 09 Mar 2010 16:01:29 +0000 http://www.spatiallyadjusted.com/?p=3281#comment-13083 What is wrong with our government when they spend huge amounts of tax dollars sending out a letter to millions of Americans telling us to expect another letter in a week?

See the letter, if you didn’t get one yet, and read about it at http://www.realvaluesite.com/?p=229.

What can we Americans do about stopping this horrific waste of our tax dollars?

]]> By: Geo Quick Bits: Infamous Censuses, Norman B. Leventhal Map Center, Handbags for Haiti | GeoLounge http://spatiallyadjusted.com/2010/02/04/increasing-census-participation/#comment-13082 Thu, 25 Feb 2010 06:09:38 +0000 http://www.spatiallyadjusted.com/?p=3281#comment-13082 [...] of some) is a cake walk compared to some of the more infamous censuses in history. James Fee points out an online mapping effort relating to the 2010 Census called Census Hard to Count [...]

]]> By: Steven Romalewski http://spatiallyadjusted.com/2010/02/04/increasing-census-participation/#comment-13081 Fri, 12 Feb 2010 18:50:08 +0000 http://www.spatiallyadjusted.com/?p=3281#comment-13081 Just an FYI that today we added two new features to the http://www.CensusHardToCountMaps.org site:

Real-time Twitter feed: The “Twitter” tab now displays a list of the latest Census-related tweets, and also shows them on the map. We’re hoping this will help Census advocates find concerned citizens, reporters, nonprofits, and other social networkers who might want to help get the word out for the 2010 Census. For now we’re filtering the tweets with either the #Census or #Census2010 hashtag, but we may add others if people suggest ones we’ve missed.Area-specific HTC info for downloading: When anyone clicks on the map and highlights a state, county, metro area, or tract, we provide the HTC statistics in a popup window, but now they’ll also see a download link so they can access that data directly (in Excel and Open Document formats).

I think the Twitter feature is especially neat, but will also be actually helpful to local groups. Be a good test of the value of the Twitter geo api.

]]> By: James Fee http://spatiallyadjusted.com/2010/02/04/increasing-census-participation/#comment-13080 Wed, 10 Feb 2010 18:26:28 +0000 http://www.spatiallyadjusted.com/?p=3281#comment-13080 Despite your insanity using the flex viewer (I kid, I kid), thanks for the link.

Very interesting stuff!

]]> By: Nick http://spatiallyadjusted.com/2010/02/04/increasing-census-participation/#comment-13079 Wed, 10 Feb 2010 17:31:11 +0000 http://www.spatiallyadjusted.com/?p=3281#comment-13079 Glad you folks are at least talking about the Census. I didn’t want to make a million maps for our people trying to assess the Hard-To-Count – so we made a viewer too – Flex based. Here’s the link: http://gis2.lacounty.gov/drp/census/

It’s simple – just for Los Angeles County…but you get the idea.

]]> By: yodel http://spatiallyadjusted.com/2010/02/04/increasing-census-participation/#comment-13078 Fri, 05 Feb 2010 23:44:12 +0000 http://www.spatiallyadjusted.com/?p=3281#comment-13078 Eh that’s the way they’ve been doing it for a while, lowest common denominator I guess. As the 1 person GIS department in New Mexico a few years back we had to do the same thing and it worked out fine in the end.

Before you change the way they want it done check with the Census Bureau first because they not have the means in the local or regional offices to deal with some type of super whizbang GIS data.

I’m curious how the map boundaries actually look after the big CENSUS/Harris MTAIP project to clean up the census maps around the country? I have a bit of effort invested there so I’m curious how it looks in the end…

]]> By: Geo Quick Bits: Infamous Censuses, Norman B. Leventhal Map Center, Handbags for Haiti | Geo Lounge – All things geography http://spatiallyadjusted.com/2010/02/04/increasing-census-participation/#comment-13077 Fri, 05 Feb 2010 22:30:29 +0000 http://www.spatiallyadjusted.com/?p=3281#comment-13077 [...] of some) is a cake walk compared to some of the more infamous censuses in history.  James Fee points out an online mapping effort relating to the 2010 Census called “Census Hard to Count [...]

]]> By: Ralph D http://spatiallyadjusted.com/2010/02/04/increasing-census-participation/#comment-13076 Fri, 05 Feb 2010 20:43:30 +0000 http://www.spatiallyadjusted.com/?p=3281#comment-13076 This is slightly off topic, but it will want to make you laugh or cry. Our county received 10-20 paper maps and a box of red pencils from the census bureau earlier this week to update various boundaries.
We are not going to do it that way.

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