[Xastir] 2004 Tiger Files

[Tom Russo]

On Tue, Feb 15, 2005 at 12:27:47PM -0800, we recorded a bogon-computron collision of the <archer at eskimo.com> flavor, containing:
> 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.  

Oh yeah, and the dbfawk that works with the polygon tiger files is alread
in the xastir config directry (tgr2shppoly.dbfawk).

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