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

Jack Twilley jmt at twilley.org
Sat Nov 22 02:35:14 EST 2003


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>>>>> "Curt" == Curt Mills <Curt> writes:

[... lots of Tiger maps ...]

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

It is a holy pain in the butt to download an entire state of
shapefiles off of the ESRI site.

Curt> Check README.MAPS for a pointer.

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

I have almost 2000 files for California alone.  I'd like the whole
country, but I don't want to spend six weeks clicking on ESRI's site.

What other sites are there?

Jack.
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