Most of Georgia’s local governments participated in the LUCA program in Georgia. Some 154 of Georgia’s 159 counties registered with the Census Bureau to participate in LUCA. Notably, 144 counties successfully completed their review; two counties officially withdrew and six did not finish. Many counties were ably assisted by their Regional Development Center (RDC), who provided training and technical assistance via their Coordinated Planning contract with DCA. DCA’s Office of Decision Support also directly assisted by preparing the address lists that were submitted by three counties and the maps that were submitted by nine other counties.

Of the 175 cities that officially registered to participate in the LUCA program; 148 of them returned completed reviews. Three participating cities decided to officially ‘agree’ with the Census Bureau data and made no revisions; 12 cities officially withdrew; and 12 cities did not finish. Remarkably, the RDCs coordinated and worked with over 300 other cities in 100 counties to consolidate their reviews at the county level.

The results are not available yet from the reviews by the local governments but DCA alone, conducting the state-level review, submitted map revisions for all or part of 92 counties, including 7 of the 11 counties noted previously that did not otherwise participate in LUCA. In all DCA submitted well over 25,000 map edits for all or part of 101 counties- the most by any entity in the nation. Only three types of edits were permitted; adding or deleting lines, and changing their attributes; DCA edited only road features. These edits included over 18,000 added and 6,500 deleted (replaced) road lines. DCA relied on two sources of information for most edits. First, DCA compiled a statewide map of the latest GDOT digital road maps, using this to copy and paste missing roads, and to replace inaccurately represented roads in the census maps.

DCA also partnered with the USDA Farm Service Agency in the 2007 National Agriculture Imagery Program. One-meter ground resolution natural-color air photos were collected statewide during the second half of the year and delivered on schedule as county-level compressed mosaics in Fall 2007. These images were used by DCA for making map corrections and trace-digitizing thousands of newer roads into the census maps. These NAIP County Compressed Mosaics were immediately made freely available and have been downloaded and used by hundreds of users. In August 2008, the full resolution GeoTIFF images were delivered and are now freely available as a Web image service.