block group lat-longs

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RobCase
block group lat-longs

 

Dear TMIP,

 

I’m looking for a table of lat-long for centroids of US block groups.

 

(I tried to create one with ESRI but I don't yet have write access.)

 

Can you point me to a downloadable table on the web?

 

(I googled it and found only the one from SafeGraph but it’s in geojson format which I can’t open and the converter on-line is limited to 1GB.)

 

Thanks.

 

Rob

 

 

 

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aakarner

Hi Rob,

You want the centers of population, found here:
https://www.census.gov/geographies/reference-files/time-series/geo/cente...
.

All the best,
Alex

ALEX KARNER, PhD Associate Professor
The University of Texas at Austin | Community and Regional Planning |
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On Wed, Jun 2, 2021 at 8:56 AM RobCase wrote:

>
>
> Dear TMIP,
>
>
>
> I’m looking for a table of lat-long for centroids of US block groups.
>
>
>
> (I tried to create one with ESRI but I don't yet have write access.)
>
>
>
> Can you point me to a downloadable table on the web?
>
>
>
> (I googled it and found only the one from SafeGraph but it’s in geojson
> format which I can’t open and the converter on-line is limited to 1GB.)
>
>
>
> Thanks.
>
>
>
> Rob
>
>
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jacobyan

Hi Rob,

In case you want to the geometric centroid, I have attached a TXT file that
contains a few lines of codes that you can run in R/R Studio to get a CSV
file that has three columns (GEOID, lon, lat). I used US counties as an
example in the code but you can easily change them to Block Groups.

[BTW, thanks Alex! I did not know that the Center of Population reference
files exists!]

Xiang ‘Jacob’ Yan, PhD

Research Assistant Professor

Civil and Coastal Engineering

Engineering School of Sustainable Infrastructure and Environment

University of Florida

On Wed, Jun 2, 2021 at 11:06 AM aakarner wrote:

> Hi Rob,
>
> You want the centers of population, found here:
> https://www.census.gov/geographies/reference-files/time-series/geo/cente...
>
> .
>
> All the best,
> Alex
>
> ALEX KARNER, PhD Associate Professor
> The University of Texas at Austin | Community and Regional Planning |
> soa.utexas.edu/people/alex-karner | @AlexKarner
> | (512) 471-5663
> *Pronouns: He / Him / His*
>
> On Wed, Jun 2, 2021 at 8:56 AM RobCase wrote:
>
> >
> >
> > Dear TMIP,
> >
> >
> >
> > I’m looking for a table of lat-long for centroids of US block groups.
> >
> >
> >
> > (I tried to create one with ESRI but I don't yet have write access.)
> >
> >
> >
> > Can you point me to a downloadable table on the web?
> >
> >
> >
> > (I googled it and found only the one from SafeGraph but it’s in geojson
> > format which I can’t open and the converter on-line is limited to 1GB.)
> >
> >
> >
> > Thanks.
> >
> >
> >
> > Rob
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
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matthew19miller

ESRI create lat-lon is the easy way to do things. If you are permanently impaired on ESRI, it might be worth looking into alternate GIS capabilities. R has a lot of code available for use on the web.

alt: https://geoservices.tamu.edu/Services/CensusIntersection/
[https://geoservices.tamu.edu/images/tamu/Logo.PNG]
Free Online Point-In-Polygon Census Intersection
Census Intersection APIs When your app needs Census tract info for a latitude/longitude point, we have the API for you. Our APIs can return the Census tract, block group, and block that a point is within for the 1990, 2000, and 2010 Censuses.
geoservices.tamu.edu

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From: rcase=hrtpo.org@mg.tmip.org on behalf of RobCase
Sent: Wednesday, June 2, 2021 7:56 AM
To: TMIP
Subject: [TMIP] block group lat-longs

Dear TMIP,

I’m looking for a table of lat-long for centroids of US block groups.

(I tried to create one with ESRI but I don't yet have write access.)

Can you point me to a downloadable table on the web?

(I googled it and found only the one from SafeGraph but it’s in geojson format which I can’t open and the converter on-line is limited to 1GB.)

Thanks.

Rob

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