Spatial, Address, Imagery, Data Program

Subject: U.S. Census Bureau – SAID – County, State - Data Request (Address Points & Street Centerline Data)

Good Morning/Afternoon,

My name is [First Name] [Last Name] and I am a Geographer with the U.S. Census Bureau. The Census Bureau is currently requesting street, address, and imagery data on behalf of the Spatial, Address, and Imagery Data (SAID) Program. 

Your street, address, and imagery data help the Census Bureau to match addresses and streets to our geographic database, add missing addresses and streets, and geocode addresses to their correct location. Imagery helps the Census Bureau identify areas of growth and development, align our geographic features to the correct location, and test the quality of our geographic database. All of this is vital to the success of the 2020 Census, the American Community Survey, and other surveys that the Census Bureau conducts. Our goal is to count everyone in the correct location.

Please respond to this email indicating whether or not you will be able to share your street, address, and imagery data with the Census Bureau. If you are able to share the data, I will send guidelines on the required metadata and instructions to upload via our Secure File Transfer Protocol (SFTP) services.

We estimate that participating in the SAID Program will take two hours on average. Send comments regarding this burden estimate or any other aspect of this collection of information, including suggestions for reducing this burden, to Paperwork Reduction Project 0607-XXXX, U.S. Census Bureau, 4H154F, 4600 Silver Hill Road, Washington, DC 20233. You may email comments to <geo.gss.file.support@census.gov >, use “Paperwork Reduction Project 0607-XXXX” as the subject. This collection has been approved by the Office of Management and Budget (OMB). The eight-digit OMB approval number that appears in this document confirms this approval. If this number were not displayed, we could not conduct this program. The Census Bureau’s legal authority for conducting activities in this document comes from Title 13 United States Code, Sections 16, 141, and 193. Data containing personally identifiable information (PII) is protected by Title 13 United States Code. Participation in the SAID Program is voluntary.

OMB Clearance for the SAID Program expires xx-xx-xxxx.

Please feel free to contact me for further information and with any questions you may have by responding to this e-mail or via telephone at (xxx-xxx-xxxx).

Thank you for the help,