On Fri, Jan 20, 2006 at 09:35:48AM -0600, David Bitner wrote: > Quick question for you. I don't want to reinvent the wheel. I'm > looking to write a script use wget or some such to grab all the 2005fe > Tiger files and set up a process to merge the files into some national > datasets. I'd like to write the code so that to update to further > TIGER releases all you would have to do is change the url for the > fetching process.
for perl there is Geo::TigerLine on CPAN, and that's what Geo::Coder::US uses inside. I heard that in some update cycles there can be subtle format alterations - i heard that there wasn't in the last TIGER release - so it may not always be fully automatable. http://civicspacelabs.org/home/zipcodedb contains zipcodedb automatic generation instructions. Rich Gibson is probably the best person to talk to, offer generous consultancy fees to, etc ;) -jo _______________________________________________ Geowanking mailing list [email protected] http://lists.burri.to/mailman/listinfo/geowanking
