RE: [Geoserver-users] Tiger data

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Hi,

In the meantime you might want to look at the census boundary files found here: http://www.census.gov/geo/www/cob/bdy_files.html

Admittedly these are generalized and not as current as possible, but they are easily imported to PostGIS through the shp2sql utility.

I’ve been using the state and county polygons with the census DemographicProfile data for an experimental SVG interface: http://www.web-demographics.com/Census/

It is unfortunate that the Census Bureau has fallen so far behind on implementation of OWS for their data resources. TIGER line files are one of the more useful data sets in the public domain. I think Dave Blasby will be filling a bit of a vacuum here.

rkgeorge

From: geoserver-users-admin@lists.sourceforge.net [mailto:geoserver-users-admin@lists.sourceforge.net] On Behalf Of Xavier Vanderstukken
Sent: Friday, March 31, 2006 7:43 AM
To: David Blasby
Cc: geoserver-users@lists.sourceforge.net
Subject: Re: [Geoserver-users] Tiger data

I’m interested about the last point of the data import:

  1. Loading TIGER high-level-polygon future process
  • creates the TIGER high level polygon datasets (state polygons, county polygon, zipcode polygons, zipcode+4 polygons, economic polygons, cenus polygons, etc…)

I just need the state polygons and county polygon

2006/3/27, David Blasby <dblasby@anonymised.com >:

I’m currently working on the TIGER dataload. I was actually going to
hold off construting these for a while because they’re not trivial and I
didnt think anyone would need them for a bit. Each one needs different
processing because they store the data differently.

I will eventually get to them. Which ones were you most interested in?

dave

Xavier Vanderstukken wrote:

Does some one has knowledges of how to process the census tiger data to
finish the procedure describes here :

http://docs.codehaus.org/display/GEOSDOC/Loading+TIGER+high-level-polygon

There are already :
polygons, landmarks,water and roads

but there are not :
state polygons, county polygon, zipcode polygons, zipcode+4 polygons,
economic polygons, cenus polygons