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

[Curt, WE7U]

On Mon, 26 Mar 2007, Tom Russo wrote:

> 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!

I for one will be _more_ than happy to see that file format bite the
dust!

It wasn't even really a map format:  It was really just several
database tables dumped to disk files in text format.  A real pain to
construct anything out of.

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