Harris Census effort == FAIL http://blogs.zdnet.com/projectfailures/?p=660 http://www.govexec.com/story_page.cfm?filepath=/dailyfed/0509/052009mm.htm
Ethan Zuckerman's description of the device: http://www.ethanzuckerman.com/blog/2009/04/27/if-us-government-contractors-had-designed-the-iphone/ My understanding is that they are going to use paper maps, mark them up, scan and georeference them back in, then heads-up digitize the changes. ( http://www.nytimes.com/2008/04/03/world/americas/03iht-3census.11652877.html ) This is the part that irks me the most (from http://fcw.com/Articles/2008/04/07/Census-counts-on-paper-for-2010.aspx?Page=1 ) "Despite the problems, Census awarded Harris two bonus fees under the cost-plus contract. The company now stands to make $1.3 billion on the deal. Gutierrez said that if Census officials had not decided to revert to paper forms, Harris would have made $1.9 billion." So yeah, Census, after giving Harris $1.3 billion, is implementing what essentially amounts to http://walking-papers.org/ sophia On Thu, Aug 20, 2009 at 2:38 PM, Ian White <[email protected]> wrote: > Ok, I know this is an unnaturally practical topic, but I’ve been thinking > about Census’ 2010 project relative to address verification/TIGER data. For > those who don’t know, Harris Corp, Census’ long time contractor for census, > is going high tech—Sprint is OEMing gear to Harris to enable remote address > verification and (I think) collection of other spatial data. There are a few > GAO and other reports (eg, http://www.gao.gov/new.items/d06272.pdf and > http://oversight.house.gov/documents/20080409144834.pdf) that are critical > of Harris’ approach/capabilities. > > > > Something I couldn’t resist: check out this HOT HOT HOT phone-type thing > that will be used for geocoding in the field: > http://www.harris.com/images/fdca.jpg. Apparently planning was begun in > 2004 so there was no iPhone on the scene. What a drag as I’m sure the app > could have been developed for less than the $600m contract (which is for the > entire census, not the brick alone). > > > > Who has details about TIGER for 2010? > > > > > > Ian White :: Urban Mapping Inc > > 690 Fifth Street Suite 200 :: San Francisco CA 94107 > > T.415.946.8170 x800 :: F.866.385.8266 :: urbanmapping.com/blog > > > > _______________________________________________ > Geowanking mailing list > [email protected] > http://geowanking.org/mailman/listinfo/geowanking_geowanking.org > >
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