[Xastir] Tiger 2007 shapefile issue...a beaut

[Richard Polivka, N6NKO]

Gerry,

Good morning!

I realize that wholeheartedly, but to have this big of a screwup....oh, 
wait, this is the Federal Government....

73 from 807,

Richard


Gerry Creager wrote:
> Richard Polivka, N6NKO wrote:
>> I admit that one point does not make a trend but what I found was 
>> eyeopening.
>>
>> I wanted just Fond du Lac county in Wisconsin to use as a base map 
>> for mapping project that I am working on ( a Boy Scout campground). I 
>> pulled in my files into QGIS and then brought in  
>> "fe_2007_55039_edges". I did not get Fond du Lac County but a huge 
>> overview of north Illinois, Indiana and SE Michigan. OUCH!!!
>>
>> I even went and downloaded a virgin fileset and got the same results 
>> (see picture).
>>
>> 55039.png
>> This is not good. I plan on sending on a comment to the Census Bureau.
>>
>> So, let the user beware - YMMV.
>
> Unfortunately, this warning has always been necessary with TIGER 
> files.  They're not the best GIS data source.  They're just available 
> and free.