A Dynamic POI for Every Man, Woman and Child.

Apparently this is true. My property is fenced in and I was out cutting grass about a month ago, when a vehicle pulled up to one of the gates and sat there and blew the horn until I drove over on the mower. The lady identified herself as being a census taker, flashed some identification and proceded to ask the usual questions. The shocker was when she ask to have access to the property so that she could stand on my front porch and record the Lat and Lon coordinates. I said that I didn't really see a problem with that, but didn't open the gate. Finally, she said that where she was standing was OK. She then tried to record the coordinates, but for some reason it supposedly didn't work. She then informed me that the system was screwed up and that I wasn't on her appointed route. I responded with "why not". There are not many houses on my street (country living at it's best). She told me that the system would assign her to one side of the street and somebody else would be assigned to the other. I said it sounded like a typical goverment program that would not work and would be more expensive than studying the sex life of the Peruvian rain frog. To date, if anyone else has tried to contact me, I don't know about it, so the information and coordinates (if any) must have been accepted.

Curt

Thrice doesn't divide into 4, or even 8 and I doubt that latter will happen anyway.

I do like the Idea of geocoding every structure by assigning Global Positioning System (GPS) coordinates, during this census.

I don't think they have a need to know about my private property, of course they can just look it up on the satellite imagery and geocode from there. Why send people out to mark things when you can have a computer and satellite do the work for you?

Because Acorn has to be paid off.

I like the idea of geocoding addresses during the census, too. Of course, it will be a government-run operation by people who will not understand the issues and technology. Where do you suppose they will put the "mark" for our addresses? On the street at the center of our yards, at the driveway, or at the front door? And what will they do with apartment complexes where there is one entrance but 4 buildings on the property?

It will be interesting to see what happens, that's for sure. We can only hope that it will be better than the current method of just mathematically assigning where addresses fall.

The way things are going now it's more likely to be the "Acorn-Google Mashup" in 2020. Census will just purchase the data