Why AGS: Vast Geographic Coverage

When the Census data is released every ten years, the geographic boundaries change. The 2020 Census provided unique challenges with the data and geography that we have extensively covered on the blog. To best serve our clients, we carry a complete range of standard...

Crickets, Revisited

During the years prior to the 2020 census, many in the industry understood that the Census Bureau was headed down a path which was sure to reduce the utility of the decennial census. The essential claim was that it was possible to match census respondents to geocoded...

The Ever-Shifting Sands of Geography Rosters

It is a familiar story heard here at AGS… “I loaded the data that I received from you into my GIS application, but when I map it, there is a county with no data. Please take a look at the attached map. Why don’t you have data for this area?” The accompanying map...
Continued Challenges for the 2020 Census

Continued Challenges for the 2020 Census

On the plane from Dallas to Las Vegas on the way to ICSC, I sat next to a broker from Marcus & Millichap. We of course talked about the show, and he asked what we do here at AGS. Inevitably, the question always comes up: can’t people just use the Census data? The...

Improved 2020 Census Geographies

The Census Bureau began the task of building a digital map base for the United States several decades ago with the development of the DIME (Dual Independent Map Encoding) files in the 1970’s. By the release of the 1990 Census, the TIGER (Topologically Integrated...