[Xastir] Tiger 2003 Polygons?

[Curt, WE7U]

Derrick, know about this?

    gdal/pymod/samples/tigerpoly.py


It's a Python script to extract Tiger polygons into a shapefile.
Useful for the 2003 data that we don't have polygons for yet?  You
did the original translation of that data to Shapefiles for us all
didn't you?

I ran it against one county's worth of data as:

    tigerpoly.py .  tgr53061wat.shp

Result was that I got a shapefile containing all lines/polygons in
that one shapefile, and it was very big.  I must have done something
wrong.  Just wanted the polygons!  At least it indexes and draws ok,
all in blue (due to the "wat" in the name).

I've been told the script works to do what I'm after, but I must not
have the correct invocation of it yet.

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