[Xastir] 2004 Tiger Files

[Derrick J Brashear]

On Tue, 15 Feb 2005, Curt, WE7U wrote:

> 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.

The batch is running reliably at this point, and I think I can rerun the 
whole country in maybe 8 hours. Someone want to check a sample
http://www.dementia.org/~shadow/www/PA_Allegheny_County.zip and see if it 
looks right?