[Xastir] Tiger 2006 files as shapefiles

[Curt, WE7U]

On Tue, 20 Feb 2007, Tom Russo wrote:

> When I first mapped out the process for doing the conversions I wrote a
> simple script that did the ogr2ogr and the Xastir-tigerpoly.py  for each
> of the tiger files for a whole state, and extracted the county name from
> the ".MET" file to use as the file name.  I think I still have that script
> lying around at work and can provide it here (it's very simple and never
> seemed significant enough to add to the scripts directory, and I was lazy
> and hardcoded some of the title parsing stuff in a way that had to be
> hand-edited for each state).  I think Derrick Brashear did something a little
> more clever with it when he did the 2004 files to be placed on
> xastir.tamu.edu.

It wouldn't be a bad idea to add that script or Derrick's script(s)
to CVS for future rounds of map-making.

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