[Gdal-dev] census 2000 tiger 108th org2ogr errors

[Frank Warmerdam]

Heitzso wrote:
> First, I want to thank the ogr2ogr author for writing
> a tool to digest the tiger files into postgis tables.
> 
> I downloaded all GA counties from census site for
> tiger 2000 108th congressional district release
> (I believe current official release) and crunched
> through most of the ogr2ogr features supported.
> The following record-type/files and record #
> errors were noted by ogr2ogr:
> 
>  RECORD TYPE
>      RECORD NUMBER
>            COUNTY
>  RT2  6194 -021
>       2941 -023
>       4223 -049
>      12540 -139
>       1805 -201
>       7148 -223
>  RT5  1013 -001
>  RTS  3509 -001
>  RT2    40 -001
>  RTI 10106 -001
> 
> What should I do to correct these?  I'm assuming
> the census tiger data files are dirty, but don't
> know that.  If it would be of help I could extract
> the relevant records noted above and email them
> to a developer.
...

Heitzso,

What were the errors you encountered?  Can you give me the direct url to
one of the datasets that had problems (and the layer causing it)?  Does
the problem occur even if converting to Shapefile, or just when converting
to PostGIS?

Best regards,

-- 
---------------------------------------+--------------------------------------
I set the clouds in motion - turn up   | Frank Warmerdam, warmerdam at pobox.com
light and sound - activate the windows | http://pobox.com/~warmerdam
and watch the world go round - Rush    | Geospatial Programmer for Rent