[Xastir] Tons of Tiger maps -- can we use them?

[Curt Mills, WE7U]

On Fri, 21 Nov 2003, Jack Twilley wrote:

> http://www.census.gov/geo/www/tiger/tgrcd108/tgr108cd.html
> 
> I chose a California county mostly at random (it was small and fast to
> download *grin*) and compared the files to the files I already have
> for that county.
> 
> Any idea how difficult it would be to convert them to shapefiles?

I think all of the tiger maps have been converted to Shapefiles
already by ESRI and others.

Check README.MAPS for a pointer.

Perhaps you're in an area that's not served by those files though?

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