[Xastir] Census 2004 Shapefiles/dbfawk question

[Tom Russo]

On Sun, Sep 03, 2006 at 05:05:03PM -0700, we recorded a bogon-computron collision of the <archer at eskimo.com> flavor, containing:
> On Sun, 3 Sep 2006, Tom Russo wrote:
> 
> > On Sun, Sep 03, 2006 at 01:41:54PM -0500, we recorded a bogon-computron collision of the <rbutler at tsss.org> flavor, containing:
> > > 
> > > My question is,  does the shapefile not include the county and city
> > > boundary shapes in the shapefiles?  I figured they'd be the
> > > jurisdictional boundaries or map edges (for each count) but I can't seem
> > > to get them displayed.
> > 
> > No, the shapefiles don't include the city and county boundaries.
> 
> As far as the county boundaries, download the c_16mr06 shapefile (or
> newer one) and use it as a map.  You might already have it loaded in
> your /usr/local/share/xastir/Counties directory as it is one of the
> files used for weather alerts.  What I do is make a link from
> somewhere in my maps directory to that "Counties" directory, so I
> only have to have one copy of the maps on my disk.  It'll then show
> up in the Map Chooser after you reindex.

It was precisely because I had this alternative source of county boundaries
that I stopped beating my head against TIGER data to figure it out.
TIGER is a royal PITA to deal with, especially given how inaccurate it is.

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