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2009 TIGER/Line Shapefiles Released

15 pointsby drpover 15 years ago

4 comments

phicouover 15 years ago
FYI for those interested in working with this data in a Geo-enabled RDBMS: It's pretty easy to get most of this data into a database on your own using GeoDjango. A simple non-TIGER tutorial is here: <a href="http://geodjango.org/docs/tutorial.html" rel="nofollow">http://geodjango.org/docs/tutorial.html</a><p>Even if you're not interested in using Django in the long run, it's a quick way to get the data into a familiar system and poke around with it a bit.
joanouover 15 years ago
Could someone comment on the state of the Tiger data. I tried to use it for an online trailer tracking application in the late 90's but it was very poor quality.
dryicerxover 15 years ago
If you ever want a free source of geographical and street data, this is the way to go. Some local cities, counties and states also offer even more up to date files (I find the census one to be a few months out dated for new streets and neighbourhoods).
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Mark_Bover 15 years ago
The thing that kills me is the websites that slurp this data and then will spit back info for literally hundreds of dollars.