On Wed, Dec 13, 2006 at 10:11:13AM -0600, we recorded a bogon-computron collision of the <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> flavor, containing: > > On Dec 13, 2006, at 9:43 AM, Tom Russo wrote: > > >Having never used TGR2SHP, I don't know if there's a clear > >advantage to > >switching tools. The process is sufficiently complex that there > >are things > >that are missed by the ogr2ogr/Xastir-tigerpoly.py method, so maybe > >there > >is a good reason to switch. > > The only thing that bothers me about the current polygons is when > there are many adjacent polygons that define a single area. This > results in a slightly ugly polygon and a serious mess with the labels.
I fixed that in the script by adding a dissolve-polygon option, but nobody ever re-ran the scripts on the data and made it public. You can always generate new shapefiles yourself if you have gdal/ogr and python installed. Download the county files from the census site and run the script over them. I *think* I describe how to do so on my "shape_web" site, and I've passed off the information on how to do it several times to folks who were going to redo the shapefiles. To date the only person who has actually run all the data through the scripts and made it publicly available was Derrick, who was using the first version of the script before it had the dissolve capability. If anyone wants to try out TGR2SHP and generate better tiger shapefiles than we have now, and make an associated dbfawk file, well, fantastic. I'd use 'em. -- Tom Russo KM5VY SAR502 DM64ux http://www.swcp.com/~russo/ Tijeras, NM QRPL#1592 K2#398 SOC#236 AHTB#1 http://kevan.org/brain.cgi?DDTNM "And, isn't sanity really just a one-trick pony anyway? I mean all you get is one trick, rational thinking, but when you're good and crazy, oooh, oooh, oooh, the sky is the limit!" --- The Tick _______________________________________________ Xastir mailing list Xastir@xastir.org http://lists.xastir.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/xastir
