[Xastir] Re: Tiger 2003 Polygons?

[Jerry Chamberlin]

Thanks all for putting this on the list
It is very educational.


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

> 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.
> 
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