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

[Alan Crosswell]

Raw tiger/line files are also available at US Depository Libraries. 
These are usually housed at University libraries.  They have to let the 
public in to get to the data for free.  That's were I used to get my 
copies of Tiger/line from.

There's a commercial tgr2shp available.  Someone motivated might want to 
hack on my tig2aprs (http://www.cloud9.net/~alan/ham/aprs) which I wrote 
to convert Tiger/Line to APRSdos format.  The code does a lot of work to 
reduce the complexity of the data, which is not needed for shapefiles.
/a


Brian D Heaton wrote:
> 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?
>>
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