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Census Intelligence — ground-truth at polygon granularity.

A spatial-first Koine vertical for statistics offices running a national or sub-national census. Enumeration-area progress, household completion maps, registrar coverage, gap analysis — with PostGIS + ArcGIS connectors built in and GeoJSON on the wire.

What it does

Six questions a census director asks every morning.

Chat in the local language. Get a map back. Audit the full chain. VitalReg's analytics engine, re-shaped around polygons and territory.
Q 01

Where are we behind?

Choropleth of ward-level completion vs target. Surfaces the bottom decile with an expandable register of the enumerators assigned.

Q 02

Where is no one registering?

Cross-references enumeration-area polygons with registered-household counts. Flags EAs with zero progress after day N.

Q 03

Which registrars are flat-lining?

Per-enumerator submission velocity vs their peer cohort. Isolates ghost-enumerators + technical failures.

Q 04

Where should supervisors go today?

Ranked list of wards by combined completion-lag + household-density, bounded by 1-day travel radius from supervisor base.

Q 05

How does this compare to last census?

Joins current run to the previous decennial baseline. Highlights statistically improbable swings.

Q 06

What's the end-of-day national roll-up?

Headline numbers + caveats (outages, refusals, security incidents) in one briefing — auto-translated into EN / FR / PT.

Technical fit

Spatial-first from the interface down.

See addendum/geospatial.md — the full spec.

Data types

geometry, geography, feature, feature_collection. GeoJSON on the wire, WGS84 normalised at the Connector boundary.

Portable spatial algebra

st_intersects, st_within, st_distance, st_buffer, st_transform, st_asgeojson. Compiles per dialect; raw escape hatch for heavy tuning.

Connectors that speak spatial

Postgres + PostGIS (reference), SQLite + Spatialite, SQL Server geography, ArcGIS Feature Service (read day-one; write v1.x after review), Mapbox Datasets.

PII on coordinates

Coordinate redaction OR grid-coarsening. A household's latitude is more identifying than its name; the Gateway treats it that way.

Map blocks in reports

Choropleth, heatmap, points, lines. Fallback data table shipped alongside for PDF accessibility. Branded from tenant tokens.

Spec-card maps in chat

AI proposes a map, human clicks Preview, render goes through the api path — never the chat write boundary.

Design partners

Bring your census cycle.

We're taking 3 design-partner engagements ahead of general availability. Pilot pricing, direct access to the Decision Intelligence team, your use cases shape the first release.

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