[Xastir] Re: Tiger 2003 Polygons?

[Curt, WE7U]

On Wed, 20 Oct 2004, Derrick J Brashear wrote:

> > 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.

Talking with Tom Russo about it quite a bit, he's of the opinion
that I got you involved way too early, and I'm now of the same
opinion.  It looks like that tigerpoly.py script doesn't do what we
want, but it's at least a good start on the matter.  It'll take some
more development before we get just want we want out of it.

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