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

[Tom Russo]

On Tue, Mar 27, 2007 at 07:19:59AM -0700, we recorded a bogon-computron collision of the <archer at eskimo.com> flavor, containing:
> On Tue, 27 Mar 2007, Jason Winningham wrote:
> 
> > I'm certainly no expert, but I think in the contrib directory there
> > are some tools to build shapefiles for you.  shapefile is a binary
> > format, so it would be something like "use perl to feed the shapefile
> > builder executable" instead of using perl to build the file
> > directly.  At least, that's what seems easiest to me.
> 
> There's also a Python script, reworked by Tom a bit, which creates
> Xastir-usable polygon shapefiles from Tiger/Line data:
> "xastir/scripts/Xastir_tigerpoly.py"

Yeah, but that's way more complex than one would want for this purpose. 
One could, however, find in that script some hints on how to generate 
shapefiles non-OGR datasources within Python if one is motivated enough.

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