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I have a question. Has anyone considered using the Census to help with this data?

http://factfinder.census.gov/servlet/AdvancedGeoSearchMapFramesetServlet?_lang=en

It has a place to put coordinates to find maps that contain information on Census divisions.

I used this resource to take a look at the Census block my coordinate ended up in. Since the Census search function has a place to put coordinates, anyone think it's worth a shot?

To follow up on this line of reason with information I obtained from my own coordinate (44.9784, -99.2239), I didn't discover much more then could be expected of the rural heart of a rural state. It'd be interesting to see how the coordinates fall within the Census blocks though. The demographich breakdown (a Relative topic) as well as the the coordinates place in the Census taking (a Numeric topic). My coordinate falls within Census tract 9811, census blcok group 3, and census block 3133.

Luke P.

**Posted:** Mon Aug 16, 2004 8:31 pm

kalamazoo · Veteran Joined: 24 Jul 2004 Posts: 83

A Maporama pinpoint places the coordinate Row 88 #1 at, not 220, but 245 Market Street.

Google searches reveal this to contain many things (restaurants, banks, a branch of UCSF) but to be most remarkable as the headquarters of Pacific Gas & Electric.

It should be noted that the Boston coordinate corresponds to the headquarters of NStar Electric.

Could there be other coordinates pinpointing power grid companies?

**Posted:** Tue Aug 17, 2004 8:54 am

Swissben · Boot Joined: 23 Jul 2004 Posts: 16 Location: Switzerland

SPEC

**Posted:** Tue Aug 17, 2004 9:38 am

jegger

**Posted:** Tue Aug 17, 2004 9:48 am

sea_mink · Boot Joined: 24 Jul 2004 Posts: 19

jegger, that location is not really in twodot, it's quite a ways to the north on an old logging road. As close to the middle of nowhere as any of the other points, except maybe the one CM just referred to. Wayhoo's list of waypoints has Sawmill Canyon as the only location close to yours. There's no power dam or anything like that.

spgheddy, don't be too taken in by the 4-decimal-point precision of those coords. I bet that for example that if the queen had asked for a road to be built to "Faulk County SD" based on something she had read about the place [in fact I bet she read something in the Faulk County Record, but that newspaper's search engine is broken and you can only read the very latest stories so we have no way of finding out what that older story was], we'd still see 4-decimal-place coords even though the county is so large that this degree of precision would not make sense.

swissben, to get the altitude just call up the Acme image (from that very useful coords_address_162.xls spreadsheet that was posted earlier in this thread) and switch from Image theme to Topo. I don't think though that the altitude will be useful.

**Posted:** Tue Aug 17, 2004 10:54 am

Jacqueline · Guest

I've just been reading through the Axon threads, and now my brain hurts. Are the puzzles usually this hard? It just seems like whatever these places have in common should be a little more obvious.

**Posted:** Tue Aug 17, 2004 11:07 am

wocdam · Guest

I've noticed that several of the spots in Idaho are near colleges... Boise State, and University of Idaho. This is probably a coincidence but it may have something to do with it. I'm definitely going to be at both Boise points as they are both near me.

**Posted:** Sat Aug 21, 2004 12:42 am

vortech

Atlanta Location Scouting

**Posted:** Sun Aug 22, 2004 7:18 pm

Binarius · Guest

bee fixations... remember the Comatos myth?

**Posted:** Mon Aug 23, 2004 3:03 am