Today we’re introducing a beta version of The United States Place Sampler (USPS), a new tool by Big Local News and The Markup that samples random street address
In October 2022, The Markup published an investigation into . Afterward, many readers, including fellow journalists, reached out to ask how they could replicate the investigation for other cities. internet disparities in 38 major cities across the United States We wanted to help make that possible, but we knew that the early challenge we had with sourcing, cleaning, and wrangling street addresses would pose an issue.
Aside from allowing readers to reproduce our investigation in their own cities, we also hope that . that it’s biased and shouldn’t be used. We decided to use , which is an open-source repository of addresses and associated geographic coordinates collected from public data from state and local governments. Although OpenAddresses does not include full coverage of the United States, it was the best source we could find and had adequate coverage in the major cities in our investigation.
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