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

[Jack Twilley]

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

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Curt> Perhaps a good solution would be to have a CVS site somewhere,
Curt> where people could add maps that were missing.  If we had 25
Curt> volunteers who took two states each, we could have it filled
Curt> with the entire U.S.  fairly quickly.  It'd be good to have a
Curt> site like that, and mirrors of the site as well.  Would make it
Curt> much easier to download maps, and in fact we could even add code
Curt> to Xastir then to auto-download the area maps you're interested
Curt> in.

This would be a good use of sourceforge web-space, IMHO.  Also, I saw
that someone else was doing something like this but I can't find the
pages I saw with Google.  The truly annoying thing, of course, is that
at the time, I was looking for something else entirely. :-(

Curt> It's possible that someone like James Jefferson might already
Curt> have the entire set of maps available.  Doesn't Aprsworld use
Curt> those?

Maybe.  Dunno.

GDAL includes a script that generates shapefiles from TIGER/Line
polygons.  Right now, it makes one big messy file.  If I can figure
out how to have it generate individual files per layer, then it's just
a long weekend of processing between free TIGER/Line files and free
shapefiles.  

Jack.
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