September 19, 2019
Do you need to work with historical Census blocks, tracts, and other divisions? With the new version 1.4 of our API, you can specify the year for Census data, going back to 2010. [Update, January 2022: You can now request boundaries from the 2000 Census as well.] The data returned includes FIPS codes, tracts, blocks, Metropolitan Statistical Areas, Census Designated Areas, and Metropolitan…
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April 24, 2019
ProPublica: Using Geocodio to Build a News App Non-profit news organization ProPublica recently built a news app to bring transparency to parking ticket issuance in Chicago, and they selected Geocodio as the geocoder behind the project. They published a detailed overview of the project and how the built the application, and included why they used Geocodio. See more here. Congressional Contact…
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March 05, 2019
Non-profit news organization ProPublica recently built a news app to bring transparency to parking ticket issuance in Chicago, and they selected Geocodio as the geocoder behind the project. At ProPublica Illinois, we’d been reporting on Chicago’s aggressive parking and vehicle compliance ticket system for months. Our stories revealed a system that disproportionately punishes black and low-income…
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January 21, 2019
In the past, we have fallen back to a centroid of the street when a given house number could not be found. We have however seen many cases where we are able to return a much better result by matching the location to a close neighbor house. This has prompted us to return nearest_rooftop_match as an alternative to street_center when possible. nearest_rooftop_match is always returned with a reduced…
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January 03, 2019
This means that API requests with the cd field append returns data for the 116th congress instead of the 115th. Legislators for the 116th congress are returned as well, courtesy of the @unitedstates project.
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December 14, 2018
Geocodio's API and spreadsheet upload tool now allow you to append data from the U.S. Census Bureau's American Community Survey (ACS). With the ACS data appends, you can match addresses and coordinates with Census data for demographics, education, veteran status, housing, and more. The data names and categories include: Demographics (guide, API docs) Total population Population by age range Sex…
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December 14, 2018
The Geocodio API will now output warnings to help alleviate common gotchas. Read more about how they work in our API documentation.
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August 24, 2018
But first…Stickers! It’s been years since we’ve sent out stickers, but we have a fresh new batch in!
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next few weeks. Eric Barnes Laptop One of the new Geocodio stickers looking mighty fine on the laptop of Laravel
News’ Eric Barnes New Feature: Team Accounts If several people in your…
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August 07, 2018
Update, March 2023: Geocodio+HIPAA is now Geocodio Enterprise. Read more here. Geocodio+HIPAA is now available For years, we’ve had people in the healthcare space ask us to launch a
HIPAA-compliant geocoder — and we’re thrilled to announce it’s finally here! Geocodio+HIPAA is a mirror of our standard product, rebuilt from the ground up
with HIPAA-level security in mind. This means several new user…
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August 06, 2018
Addresses, even if they are detached from patient names, are one of the 18 types of Personal Health Information (PHI) that are covered under HIPAA. According to the regulations: All geographical subdivisions smaller than a State, including street address, city, county, precinct, zip code, and their equivalent geocodes, except for the initial three digits of a zip code, if according to the current…
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