[OSGeo-Edu] TIGER and status on my FOSS GIS course materials

[Gary Watry]

TIGER Data is built off  the U.S. Census data and covers just the U.S.

Ari Jolma wrote:
> Charlie Schweik kirjoitti:
>   
>> One broader question. I assume TIGER is really a US dataset. Are there
>> similar types of census data in various countries in Europe? Are there
>> any standards emerging on census data?
>>     
>
> I'm not that familiar with TIGER since it is US data. We have (horribly
> expensive) census data available at least in 1 km x 1 km and 250 m x 250
> m squares of Finland (I have access to those). It has such information
> as household size, education, employment, homes, offices, etc.
>
> European data harmonization is of course a big issue but I guess the
> European datasets are squares also but larger.
>
> Ari
>
>   

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