[178748] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: FCC form 477 geocoding
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Sean Donelan)
Tue Mar 3 18:13:32 2015
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Date: Tue, 3 Mar 2015 18:13:28 -0500 (EST)
From: Sean Donelan <sean@donelan.com>
To: Jay Hennigan <jay@west.net>
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Cc: NANOG list <nanog@nanog.org>
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On Tue, 3 Mar 2015, Jay Hennigan wrote:
>> Well you'll need to translate those into addresses. That should be easy
>> with Google or Bing.
>
> We have the addresses, need census tract and block.
For small address batches you can use the Census Geocoder. The
documentation is at
http://www.census.gov/geo/maps-data/data/geocoder.html
Basically you upload a CSV file addresses and you'll get back FIPS
codes for state, county, census tract and census block for each address.
Concatenate the FIPS state+county+censustract code (not the census block).
If you have lots of customers in many different census tracts, you'll
probably want a bulk geocoding product.
