[Xastir] [aprssig] TGR2SHP TIGER/Line translator is now Freeware (fwd)

Jason Winningham jdw at eng.uah.edu
Wed Dec 13 11:11:13 EST 2006


On Dec 13, 2006, at 9:43 AM, Tom Russo wrote:

> Having never used TGR2SHP, I don't know if there's a clear  
> advantage to
> switching tools.  The process is sufficiently complex that there  
> are things
> that are missed by the ogr2ogr/Xastir-tigerpoly.py method, so maybe  
> there
> is a good reason to switch.

The only thing that bothers me about the current polygons is when  
there are many adjacent polygons that define a single area.  This  
results in a slightly ugly polygon and a serious mess with the labels.

-Jason
kg4wsv





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