Map of ALL houses within ward boundary

[jimsteed]

I have been requested to provide the Stake with a number of ALL houses within our ward boundary. I'm just wondering if there is a tool within LCR or if anyone else has a suggestion as to how to do this. I could maybe get an idea off of google maps but it is missing some of our new developments. The only way I'm seeing that will work is the old fashioned method of getting in a car, driving around, and counting the houses!

[davesudweeks]

I don't know of anything other than what you already thought of. If I received this request, I would ask the Stake to show me how to accomplish it - I think someone came up with an idea but never thought through the logistics. Is an apartment building a house or would you also be expected to know how many apartments are in every building? A daunting task to be sure.

[russellhltn]

I don't know of anything other than what you already thought of.

There are no church tools for accomplishing this.

You might be able to get a database of mailing addresses from the Post Office or some mass-mailing outfit, but it would probably require financing and/or paperwork to get it. I'd go back to the stake first.

[sbradshaw]

If your ward is geographically small, you might look online for a parcel map of your city or neighborhood (or contact the city/county offices to see if one is available). A parcel map shows the boundaries of each property. As a missionary in a couple of geographically small areas, we hung a parcel map on a bulletin board, and used colored pins to mark where Church members and people we were teaching lived – it was really useful for visualizing the ward and planning.

As mentioned above, number of properties isn't necessarily equivalent to the number of families/households, if your ward has apartments, duplexes, basements for rent, etc.

You could also look in other places for more recent satellite images, such as Bing Maps, or city/county websites.

[BrianEdwards]

Agree with going back to the Stake first. If the Stake hasn't identified a straightforward way for each Ward to accomplish this, then I'd ask the Stake to work that out -- so that each individual ward doesn't waste time trying to figure out their own approach. At the very least, have the Stake ask one of the Wards to be the test subject, and do all the legwork to then share with others. What might take one tech-savvy ward a minimal amount of time, could be endless frustration for another ward.

And if there is a good approach (either the Stake explains it, or another Ward identifies what to do), then sharing this info between Wards will ensure that the Stake isn't getting mixed data from different ideas of what their request means.