[Xastir] maps

Derrick J Brashear shadow at dementia.org
Wed Feb 25 14:23:13 EST 2004


On Wed, 25 Feb 2004, Brian D Heaton wrote:

> Derrick,
>
> 	I've tried to use ogr2ogr before to do this, but rapidly ended up
> beating my head against the wall.  IIRC, it had to do with limitations
> of COMPLETE_CHAIN objects.
>
> 	My end goal is to rip the TIGER files into a PostGIS enabled db and
> then run queries against it followed by pgsql2shp to produce each of the
> layers.  That way I can split things out by CFCC.
>
> 	If you have a good cookbook example I'd much appreciate it.

Nope, i did it ad-hoc as i needed it. i needed to keep current on gdal in
order to get support for the newest tiger files, and one layer (i forget
which, but i didn't care about it) never worked right.




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