Spatial, Address, Imagery, Data Program

The SAID Program, formerly known as the Geographic Support System Partnership Program (GSS), is one of seven voluntary geographic partnership programs that collects data to update the U.S. Census Bureau’s geographic database of addresses, streets, boundaries, and imagery, known as the Master Address File/Topologically Integrated Geocoding and Referencing (MAF/TIGER) System. The data within the MAF/TIGER System supports the Census Bureau’s geographic framework for data collection, tabulation and dissemination. This framework enables the Census Bureau field personnel to navigate to the appropriate locations for data collection and it enables the Census Bureau to accurately link demographic data from surveys and the decennial census to locations and areas, such as cities, school districts, and counties for data tabulation and dissemination. The GSS program was previously included in the Geographic Partnership Programs Generic Clearance (OMB Control Number 0607-0795).

The latest form for Spatial, Address, Imagery, Data Program expires 2021-12-31 and can be found here.