[Xastir] TIGER/Line files --- End of an Era

[Troy M. Campbell]

I'm a bit paranoid, but I didn't see anything about the new stuff being
free and I DID see something about charging for data.  I guess we'll
have to see.
In the mean time I think I'll archive the last revision they publish.

On another topic..... I _could_ get a file with population by FIPS code
and merge it into a GNIS set using XASTIR's current file format,
............... If anyone wants it.

73 de Troy, KC0MIC



-----Original Message-----
From: xastir-bounces at xastir.org [mailto:xastir-bounces at xastir.org] On
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Sent: Monday, March 26, 2007 8:19 PM
To: xastir at xastir.org
Subject: [Xastir] TIGER/Line files --- End of an Era

I just surfed over to the Census web site and see this:

http://www.census.gov/geo/www/tiger/future/future_tl.html

It says that after the 2006 Second Edition files are released (which
happened a few weeks ago), they will no longer be producing TIGER/Line
files, they'll be replaced by a number of different file formats
including shapefiles.  Looks like a big win for xastir users!

-- 
Tom Russo    KM5VY   SAR502   DM64ux
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Tijeras, NM  QRPL#1592 K2#398  SOC#236 AHTB#1
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one-trick pony anyway? I mean all you get is  one trick, rational
thinking, but when you're good and crazy, oooh, oooh,  oooh, the sky is
the limit!"  --- The Tick
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