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

[Gerry Creager N5JXS]

At one point, Bruce Perens had something similar in mind.  I'll try to 
find a working address and ask him if this is still available...

gerry

Jack Twilley wrote:
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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. :-(
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> 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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