I would like a complete list of street names within school district 13
in Huntington, New York.  Patrs of the towns named Huntington Station
(11746), South Huntington (11743) and Melville (11747) will fall
within this school district.  The school district is known as "South
Huntington School District."  The name of the high school is Walt
Whitman H.S.

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Request for Question Clarification by mwalcoff-ga on 24 Jun 2002 16:04 PDT

Hello,
Will a map of the school district satisfy your needs, or do you
require a text list of every street in the district? There may be
hundreds of streets in the district.
Thanks

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Clarification of Question by sixpockets-ga on 25 Jun 2002 15:06 PDT

Hello, I do require a text list of every street in the district.  I
have a Hagstrom Suffolk County Atlas which clearly shows the boundries
of the school districts, and of course the streets are labled, and so
I could read and copy every one of them to form a text list, but I'm
hoping there is an easier way to compile this list.  If the Google
Answers format doesn't work, I will try to contact the school district
administration office directly.  Thanks for working on my question -
Sixpockets

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Request for Question Clarification by acorn-ga on 30 Jun 2002 15:54 PDT

Hi Sixpockets!

If you can wait till tomorrow, I can provide you with your list.  I
have all the GIS data, but forgot that I have a new laptop and haven't
installed my GIS program on it yet, and won't be able to till tomorrow
morning.  So if you'd like to extend your deadline (which is currently
tonite...Sunday...after which answers and comments can't be posted),
I'd be more than happy to post the answer tomorrow...assuming someone
else doesn't answer first :-)

I apologize for not seeing your question earlier. Life does get in the
way sometimes!

Acorn-ga

Here you go!
An actual list with all the street names doesn't exist. However, with
the map not only can you see the streets, but you can also see their
arrangement.

Try using the zoom feature to get a more detailed view.  This map is
of the area with zipcode 11743.  To view the other areas, simply
change this zip code in the lower right of the screen.

http://maps.yahoo.com/py/maps.py?BFCat=&Pyt=Tmap&newFL=Use+Address+Below&addr=huntington&csz=11743&Country=us&Get%A0Map=Get+Map

Hope I can get into the research team!
Count = 3!

I would imagine that sixpockets wanted to know exactly which streets
form part of the school district... the map you referred to seems to
be a normal map, simply showing the entire area without any kind of
indication as to which streets belong to which school district.

I think that if sixpockets had wanted a map of the general area, they
could probably have found one since they already knew which towns and
ZIP codes were involved... but the school district does not coincide
with the town limits.

Well, using the zoom feature on the map you can get a detailed view.
Also he says which zip codes form a part of the school district.

Anyway,  what do you say SIXPCKETS-ga?  Usefull? Not?

Let me clarify my clarification. I have a map that shows the borders
of the school district (not the ZIP codes) with every street drawn in.
Not all of the little streets are labeled, but you can match them to a
larger scale street atlas or something.

Given time and motivation, a complete list of street names in that
school district can be compiled.  Unfortunately, I don't have acess to
any GIS (Geographical Information System) software (and the effort to
create even a simplified one to generate such a list would take the
majority of a day).

However, I'll post up the process, and perhaps someone who does happen
to have access to GIS software can do it for you.

The United States provides all data taken from census information via
Tiger (Topologically Integrated Geographic Encoding and Referencing
system).
http://tiger.census.gov/

This information includes spatial data for all counties, including
streets and school district borders.

You can find the 2000 census files for New York state at
http://www.census.gov/geo/www/tiger/tigerua/NY/

Looking up Suffolk County at the Fips database, I find that Suffolk
county has a fips code of 103 and New York state has a code of 36. 
Thus the file that contains data for Suffolk County is in the specific
file
http://www.census.gov/geo/www/tiger/tigerua/NY/TGR36103.ZIP

For anyone interested in coding a GIS to use this data should look at
this document
http://www.census.gov/geo/www/tiger/tigerua/ua2ktgr.pdf

Using the information in that document, a program can generate the
lattitudes and longitudes of the vertices of the polygon that covers
the school district.  Then the program would find all the streets that
are within the boundaries of the polygon.

Hopefully, someone can do something with this information.  Good luck.

Hello,

OK, I can tell you now that the chances of actually finding the
information you seek online are slim to none. However, it must exist
somewhere for election and administrative purposes.

The Census Bureau has something called TIGER/Line files that basically
give information for every address in the country. Unfortunately, the
online guide to the field codes in the database
(http://www.census.gov/geo/www/tiger/tiger2002/ch6_2002.pdf) lists
school districts under "polygons," so it might only note the borders
of the district rather than give you information for every street.

I would contact the Suffolk County GIS Department at (631) 853-5191.
You can also try the Board of Elections at (631) 852-4500, but they
probably get their data from the GIS Department.

Finally, you could simply try the school district.

Good luck.

I waited until this panned out before I posted anything.  This
involves a spatial overlay.  One takes the TIGER street coverage and
does an intersect with the TIGER school district boundaries.  This can
be done easily in just about any GIS package, including ESRI ARCGIS. 
As this is an actual GIS exercise and not a simple Q&A, I suspect you
are going to have to pay someone to do this if the district(s) do not
have the answer.  As long as this can of worms has been opened, I'll
tell you that the street attributes can easily be added as well, such
as what types of roads they are, length etc.  Please respond if you'd
like more info.  Best regards, FARVIN