Hello everyone,

My name is Kathy Yu and I am part of the NCTCOG MPO, which is the 2020 Census PSAP PPO for our 16-county area in the Dallas-Fort Worth Metroplex. I learned that not everyone has been receiving information about the GUPS Software download, webinar information, and shapefile pre-plans, so I am providing links that I know of here. Please post to the listserv with any follow-up questions or information.

GUPS Software download:

I received the following information from my Census District office. GUPS software for PSAP (GUPS.zip) is now available here.

Please make sure to review Item 1.1 of the attached FAQ which mentions resolution of an issue with non-administrators trying to use the GUPS Plug-In.

Webinar:

They have posted Census GUPS Webinar Dates under the “Training Webinar Information” link on the following page:

https://www.census.gov/programs-surveys/decennial-census/about/psap.html

I would suggest that you cc your district office on your email to reserve a webinar. I guess my email to reserve a webinar was sent to spam, so I needed someone to intercede on my behalf.

Documentation: (Attached)

Starting_a_New_Project.pdf – Excerpt of GUPS Guide to create a new project

PSAP_FAQ.docx – PSAP FAQ developed by our district office (I believe Item 1.1 in here was developed from our experience in trying to allow Non-Administrative Users be able to use the Plug-In.)

I also have a 2020CensusPSAP_GUPSGuide.pdf but it is 24 MB. Can anyone suggest a way to make this available to the listserv?

Shapefile/Pre-Plan downloads:

2020 Census pre-plans (18v3): https://www2.census.gov/geo/pvs/ (Refer to FAQ 1.2 for naming convention)
2020 proposed tract changes (in tabular format) can be downloaded here.
Most up to date 2010 geographies (18v2). https://www2.census.gov/geo/pvs/ (Refer to FAQ 1.2 for naming convention)

Some quirks that we have experienced so far:

1. Need to copy files from administrator’s User files to get the plug in for a user with no administrative privileges

2. Cannot share projects folders between users easily. If a second user tries to use the same folder, it asked to delete the previous projects. You can export and import project.zip files.

3. I expected that the pre-plan tracts and block groups would appear under working county in the layers, and the 2010 shapefiles would appear under 2010_geographies, but this is not always the case.

I hope this helps. Please let me (or the listserv) know if you have questions or need any additional information which I didn’t include.

Regards,

Kathy

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Kathy Yu
Principal Transportation System Modeler, Model Development and Data Management
North Central Texas Council of Governments
Phone: (817) 608-2343

Email: kyu@nctcog.org