Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] Population statistics in GIS Softwares

2017-06-03 Thread Stephen Woodbridge
You can get all the Ceneus polygon areas that they report statistics about here: ftp://ftp2.census.gov/geo/tiger/TIGER2016/ ZCTA5 - Zip code tabulation areas BG - block groups etc There is good documention. If you loade these into postgis, then you can dos a simple query like: select *

Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] Population statistics in GIS Softwares

2017-06-03 Thread Parv Aggarwal
Hi all, I know the census geocoder can get lat/long and FIPS codes, up til 1000 entries... 1) what's the best free alternative for over 1000 entries which still preserves data privacy? 2) what's the best way to batch map/convert FIPS codes to zip codes or vice versa? I need to create an

Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] Population statistics in GIS Softwares

2017-05-23 Thread Till Adams
Dear Parv, I am quite sure, that QGIS is the most suitable software for your kind of work. Presumably there is no function in ArcGIS, that has no equivalent in QGIS - if you check out the "Vector" menu you get the "Geoprocessing Tools" with buffer and many other functions. (May be it's hidden in

[OSGeo-Discuss] Population statistics in GIS Softwares

2017-05-22 Thread Parv Aggarwal
Hi QGIS Community, I'm Parv, an analytics intern at the Latino Community Credit Union here in North Carolina. I'm tasked with finding and using GIS software to visualize both US Census data and our membership data at micro levels to determine best locations for expansions. As per my