[Xastir] 2004 Tiger Files

[Curt, WE7U]

On Tue, 15 Feb 2005, J. Lance Cotton wrote:

> On Mon, 14 Feb 2005 14:22:12 -0800 (PST), Curt, WE7U <archer at eskimo.com> wrote:
> > I think this is a new release from the fles we processed last year.
> > Anyone want to process them into Shapefiles and make them available
> > for download again?  Do we have enough space on the site down in
> > Texas to put these files?
>
> I have a question: Can these be processed in some way that does retain
> the polygons (or whatever it was that causes lakes to not be filled)?

Yes.  When they were originally processed the ogr2ogr program
couldn't do polygons.  We had no way to process the polygons into
shapefiles.

Tom Russo hacked on a script that came with Shapelib and created
Xastir_tigerpoly.py, which processes all of the polygons, then came
out with a dbfawk file that worked with it as I recall.  We should
be able to process everything all at once this year so that the
polygons are available right out of the gate.

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