[Xastir] Tiger/Line Maps, Future Direction

[Derrick J Brashear]

On Tue, 5 Sep 2006, Curt, WE7U wrote:

>> Speaking of that, anyone care to process some newer Tiger/Line data
>> so we can get an updated map set?  It takes a lot of space and
>> processor power to process the entire U.S.  I think it was Derrick
>> that automated this process and did the conversion a couple of times
>> before.  Perhaps he can do it again or help someone else (Gerry?) to

I still have the scripts somewhere, if I can find them I can do it again.

>> automate the process.  It'd be great if it could be kicked off on
>> TAMU's servers to process it and leave it on the TAMU ftp site.
>> Even better if it was so automated we could kick it off whenever a
>> new set of Tiger/Line data came out (twice a year now?).
>
> Hmmm.  Looks like we won't have to do this much longer, but we could
> still process the 2nd edition 2005 files right now, and the next
> couple of sets to come out:
>
>    http://www.census.gov/geo/www/tiger/index.html
>
> But read this:
>
>    http://www.census.gov/geo/www/tiger/future/future_tl.html

> Also, looks like the first 2006 dataset is to be released 4th
> quarter this year, so it might be prudent to wait for it before
> processing into our Shapefiles.  Unless it's so automated and easy
> that we could process the 2005 dataset right away while we're
> waiting.

It's easy if I remember what I did with the scripts.