[Xastir-dev] Someone to crunch the Tiger 2003 maps?

[Curt, WE7U]

We have a site that can host the Tiger 2003 maps in Shapefile
format.

We just need someone to download the Tiger data and crunch it, then
upload it to the new site.  Any volunteers?

Here's the info on how to do the conversions.  We just need the map
shapefiles, not the geocoded files.  We already have a site
containing the latter.

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---------- Forwarded message ----------
Date: Fri, 2 Apr 2004 13:45:22 -0700
From: Tom Russo <russo at bogoflux.losalamos.nm.us>
To: "Curt, WE7U" <archer at eskimo.com>
Subject: Re: Tiger 2003 Conversions

> can you pass your scripts/instructions off to someone who
> can generate them?

*shrug*  The script is trivial:

 for i in *.zip
   do
     j=`basename $i .zip`
     ./convert.sh $j
   done

where convert.sh is:
- ---
#!/usr/local/bin/bash

BASENAME=$1

mkdir $1
cd $1
unzip ../$1.zip
ogr2ogr -f "ESRI Shapefile" -t_srs EPSG:4326 foo .
COUNTYNAME=`grep Title *.MET | head -1 | sed -e 's-.*Title: TIGER/Line Files, 20
03, Washington, \(.*\) County-\1-'| sed -e 's/ /_/g'`
cd foo
cp CompleteChain.prj /sandbox/tvrusso/TIGER/WA/shapes/${COUNTYNAME}_County.prj
cp CompleteChain.shp /sandbox/tvrusso/TIGER/WA/shapes/${COUNTYNAME}_County.shp
cp CompleteChain.shx /sandbox/tvrusso/TIGER/WA/shapes/${COUNTYNAME}_County.shx
cp CompleteChain.dbf /sandbox/tvrusso/TIGER/WA/shapes/${COUNTYNAME}_County.dbf
- ---

Obviously, I didn't spend much time generalizing it.  I did a similar one that
dumped the New Mexico stuff right into the xastir maps dir.

This does the shapefile convertion.  To do the geocoding, you just follow
the directions in the geocoder directory:

 find  /dir/where/tiger/zips/are -name '*.zip' | ./geo-map.sh fip55all.txt ./alias.txt ./ouput_map_name

Piece of cake.