[Xastir] Re: Tiger 2003 Polygons?

[Derrick J Brashear]

On Wed, 20 Oct 2004, Curt, WE7U wrote:

>
> Derrick, know about this?
>
>    gdal/pymod/samples/tigerpoly.py

Nope. But I was reading your discussionb with Frank...

>
> 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 did.

> 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).

If you figure it out I'm willing to reprocess the data; Otherwise, I won't 
have time till the weekend but I'm willing to poke at it.