[Xastir-dev] first cut at geocoder

[Curt, WE7U]

On Wed, 31 Mar 2004, Tom Russo wrote:

> ogr2ogr can generate usable shapefiles from TIGER/Line zip files very quickly.
> You only need to tweak the tgrlk.dbfawk file a tiny bit to get it to recognize
> the dbf signature and you're in.
>
> I will try tonight to see if I can do just that for the newest data, and will
> post my "tgr2shp.dbfawk" file on my shape_web site along with the ogr2ogr
> command you use to do it.

I could use the latest street data for the SAR computers I'm setting
up right now.

Any possibility that someone can process a county or three in WA for
me?  If not, I'll try to find time to do that later.

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