I have Census Blocks Code data (15 digits code) and need to get corresponding street names and addresses in NYC. What is the best source of such information?
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You could do this with a few lines of R, taking the spatial over of the roads file and the block file, then iterating through the list and dumping it to a nice table. I'm not sure of any other way to do this.
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I saw somewhere that Tiger/Lines files for edges should be used to get addresses. Is it also correct? Could you please advise some link to the file with road information?– AndreyApr 12, 2017 at 6:27
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Have you looked here: census.gov/geo/maps-data/data/tiger-line.html Apr 13, 2017 at 4:03
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1Yes. But I'm a bit confused because this link e-education.psu.edu/natureofgeoinfo/c4_p8.html indicates that the Tiger files with edges should be used (see www2.census.gov/geo/tiger/TIGER2016/EDGES) instead of road data. Also there is info at catalog.data.gov/dataset/… stating that AddrFeat Tiger files are even better. Both type of files have necessary fields to create Address Locator. So may be you can advise which file should be used: road, edges or addrfeat?– AndreyApr 13, 2017 at 19:38
If you are fine with human-readable, you can find the block maps at https://www2.census.gov/geo/maps/dc10map/GUBlock/st36_ny/place/p3651000_new_york/.
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I just found there some maps in pdf files but there are no texts with addresses there.– AndreyApr 13, 2017 at 19:36
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