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

2007-03-27 Thread Tom Russo
On Tue, Mar 27, 2007 at 07:15:35AM -0700, we recorded a bogon-computron collision of the <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> flavor, containing: > 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

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

2007-03-27 Thread Curt, WE7U
On Tue, 27 Mar 2007, Tom Russo wrote: > But as a true topological format, it did carry around lots of relationships > between data that get thrown away very quickly when digested to formats like > shapefiles. Made it pretty well suited to GIS analysis, which was its > purpose. Sure, but did you

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

2007-03-27 Thread Tom Russo
On Tue, Mar 27, 2007 at 07:19:59AM -0700, we recorded a bogon-computron collision of the <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 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.

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

2007-03-27 Thread Curt, WE7U
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 per

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

2007-03-27 Thread 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

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

2007-03-27 Thread Jason Winningham
On Mar 27, 2007, at 7:07 AM, Jason Winningham wrote: I think in the contrib directory That was vague; I should have said in the _shapelib_ contrib directory (as opposed to the xastir contrib directory). -Jason kg4wsv ___ Xastir mailing list

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

2007-03-27 Thread Jason Winningham
On Mar 27, 2007, at 6:33 AM, Troy M. Campbell wrote: When I get time to learn more about shapefiles. 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 fe

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

2007-03-27 Thread Troy M. Campbell
73 de Troy, KC0MIC -Original Message- From: Jason Winningham [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, March 27, 2007 6:19 AM To: Troy M. Campbell Cc: Xastir User mailing list Subject: Re: [Xastir] TIGER/Line files --- End of an Era On Mar 26, 2007, at 8:46 PM, Troy M. Campbell wrote: > I _

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

2007-03-27 Thread Jason Winningham
On Mar 26, 2007, at 8:46 PM, Troy M. Campbell wrote: I _could_ get a file with population by FIPS code and merge it into a GNIS set using XASTIR's current file format, If you're gonna do that, why not just make it a shapefile and create a dbfawk, so the sufficiently interested user can con

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

2007-03-26 Thread Troy M. Campbell
stir.org Subject: [Xastir] TIGER/Line files --- End of an Era 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 p

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

2007-03-26 Thread Tom Russo
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