Experimentally wardrive a census block group

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Work and ideas about my work on the Albemarle Broadband Authority.

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Experimentally wardrive a census block group #15

Open waldoj opened 5 years ago

waldoj commented 5 years ago

When the Raspberry Pi is configured (#14), select a census block group to wardrive, do so, collect the data, and compare it to other data sources.

[x] select a census block group
[x] drive it
[x] compare the data to WiGLE’s
[x] compare the data to the FCC’s
[x] find a quantitative way to make these comparisons
[ ] address-locate WiGLE records
[ ] address-locate CAF-II records
[ ] address-locate war-driven records
[ ] determine what percentage of records exist in multiple datasets

waldoj commented 5 years ago

The tract should be rural, but not huge. Find one that strikes the right balance. 101 is right out. 104.02 includes Glenmore, which I can't get into. 102.01 and 104.01 are attractive. Just about everything in the southern end of the county is too big, in the western there are too many residential roads (because Crozet), and other compact ones touch the edge of town, which means most of the population isn't going to be rural.

Yeah I think it's 102.01 or 104.01.

waldoj commented 5 years ago

I've just changed this to census block, instead of tract. That may be a mistake, because it doesn't appear that existing data is available at a sufficient granularity to make a block-based comparison, but I've gotta drive a block before I can drive a tract, so there seems no harm to scoping this down.

waldoj commented 5 years ago

Ahhh, I've been operating under a fundamental misunderstanding. A census block is really tiny. A census tract is pretty big. A census block group is in between the two.