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Addressing
Why Bother with Maps?
By Darla Parker, ACSECHow many readers would like to
share in $30 million? Now that we have
your attention, the state loses that
amount' annually due to overlooked
Texans not counted in the 1990 Census.
Because federal grant programs rely upon
inaccurate counts of Texans in granting
money to Texas, our share of funds
never quite reach us.
Does your county receive Medicaid
funds? Job Training Partnership funds?
Money for Women, Infants, and Chil-
dren (WIC)? Aging and Nutrition Ser-
vices for the Elderly? These and many
more programs use population counts to
send money to Texas and there is a very
good chance residents were not all
counted.
How does this relate to 9-1-1? Nine-
one-one wants to locate residents even
more than Census. With the state in the
addressing process, this is a good time to
map Texas more accurately with street
names and address ranges. The Bureau
of Census also aims to find all Texans,
give them a questionnaire, and count all
Texans for the year 2000 census.
The maps needing better accuracy
are the TIGER maps which form the
national database at Census. All Texas
counties are being asked to join in updat-
ing these maps as a pilot project with
Census. Only a handful of Texas coun-
ties are able to use digital maps on
computers, and paper maps are acces-
sible by most people. In exchange for
updating maps, a county receives a newly
plotted, updated map as well as an atlas
to use in emergency vehicles-all free.
To illustrate the importance of this
project, other Texas state agencies and
universities which are the biggest users
of maps joined in this spring, asking the
Legislature for an appropriations request
of over $5 million to complete this task.
In light of the state's budget crunch, such
a request is a bold, but necessary step to
limit costs, yet provide for the futurewhere we need maps that are current and
useable.
If you think you don't need TIGER
maps, consider this: they are used for
redistricting; they are used for boundary
and survey purposes in school districts
and political subdivisions; and they are
used for transportation planning.
What do current TIGER maps give
you? They show public and private
roads with road names and address ranges,
primarily in urban areas. They also
show political boundaries as well as
census tract numbers. The maps are not
100% complete; however, the only way
to make them complete is for each county
to update its respective maps.
Positional accuracy is another area
of TIGER which will undergo improve-
ments by Census and the U.S. Geologi-
cal Survey in the upcoming years. Those
using a GIS for applications needing
degrees of accuracy to less than 30 feet
will be interested to see this completed.
The ACSEC staff can instruct coun-
ties on how to update the maps which are
already in the hands of each regional
council of governments. Darla Parker or
Steve Barbre can provide additional de-
tails if you are interested in being a part
of this project.
'State Comptroller's Office, 1990
Just In: Irion County is the
first Texas county to complete their
TIGER map update, just received
March 16. Concho Valley Council
of Governments' member county
has done a fine job in marking up
unnamed streets and adding address
ranges to their county map. The
map is on its way to Census for
digitizing, and in exchange, Irion
will receive a new paper map for
use in emergency services and for
business.. A question commonly asked of
ACSEC is "What are the bid re-
quirements a county must follow
when using the Addressing Pool
Funds?" The answer can be found
in two state statutes which guide
county contracting: Sec. 262.023
of the Local Government Code and
Article 664-4 of Vernon's Revised
Civil Statutes.K
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Message
from the U.S.
Post Office
An Addendum to the Article
Published in March/April 1993
Below are the 9-1-1 AddressManagement
Texas:
Houston
Nolan Kalich
Zip Codes:
Fort Worth
Frank Perez
Zip Codes:
Dallas
Randy Arnold
Zip Codes:
San Antonio
Jim Moderow
Zip Codes:Systems contacts in
(713) 226-3406
770 through 778
(817) 625-3680760,
764,
790,
793,
796761 through
768, 769,
791, 792,
794, 795,(214) 393-6638
750 through 759
(210) 657-8510
765, 766, 767,
779, 780 through
789, 797, 798,
799-I
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