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

[Brian D Heaton]

Curt/All,

	The only problem with that is there is a limit (50MB??) on what you can
download in a single pass.  Its still a PITA to drop out counties within
a layer to get down to that limit.  I did a couple states like that, but
if I tried to do the whole US I'd go nuts.

	I've got the whole collection of raw TIGER files for the US and I'll be
happy to burn a copy and send them to anyone that would like to look at
writing a conversion utility.  They are available commercially, but at
$500 a shot its a bit more than I'm ready to pay to convert free data.


			THX/BDH

 



On Mon, 2003-11-24 at 00:53, Curt Mills, WE7U wrote:
> On Fri, 21 Nov 2003, Jack Twilley wrote:
> 
> > 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?
> 
> I remember that you can download an entire layer at a time for a
> state, so you only need to repeat that a few times for each state.
> If you're trying to create an archive containing every layer
> possible, then you're probably out of luck.  I only use a small
> subset of the layers typically:  roads/rivers/lakes.
> 
> http://www.mapshots.com has shapefile format maps as well, but they
> don't have all of the layers available.
> 
> Perhaps a good solution would be to have a CVS site somewhere, where
> people could add maps that were missing.  If we had 25 volunteers who
> took two states each, we could have it filled with the entire U.S.
> fairly quickly.  It'd be good to have a site like that, and mirrors
> of the site as well.  Would make it much easier to download maps, and
> in fact we could even add code to Xastir then to auto-download the
> area maps you're interested in.
> 
> It's possible that someone like James Jefferson might already have
> the entire set of maps available.  Doesn't Aprsworld use those?
> 
> Curt, WE7U.				archer at eskimo.com
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