You can do a look up using http://www.batchgeocode.com/ which is free. I thought last year this gave me census tracts, but I must be wrong because this year, it only gives me lat and long. I wonder if these can then be translated into census tracts?
Martha Huizenga DC Access, LLC 202-546-5898 */Friendly, Local, Affordable, Internet!/**/ Connecting the Capitol Hill Community Join us on Facebook <http://www.facebook.com/home.php?#/pages/Washington-DC/DC-Access-LLC/64096486706?ref=ts>or follow us on Twitter <http://twitter.com/dcaccess> /* Matt Larsen - Lists wrote: > 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/ > > -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 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/
