map files for tiger line data

[Stephen Woodbridge]

Ryan,

Thank you for the comments on my maps. You might be interested in
looking at http://imaptools.com/~woodbri/ which is a new interface I am
working on that has multiple map styles that you can switch on the fly.
I have been adding more styles as I have time. I am happy to help people
when if they get stuck on any specific rendering issues. Just post to
the list.

99% of the data is extracted from the Tigerline files. I have a few
miscellaneous data layers that I have collected elsewhere as downloads like:

Canada and Mexico reference layers, placenames data layer, zipcode
polygons (you can get then from the census site). There might be one or
two other layers, but 99% is just the Tigerline data converted to
shapefiles. For some of the data layers I have post processed the data,
like for highways I scan the road names can extract route type and
number and populate attributes to make rendering easier. You can do this
with Perl or PHP mapscript and some regular expressions.

-Steve
  http:/imaptools.com/

Ryan D Taylor wrote:
> Hi,
>
> Does anybody have any .MAP files that they've used for displaying tiger
> line data that they would like to share?  Ideally, I'd like to have
> something that looks like the maps that mapquest generates or like
> Stephen Woodbridge's Tiger/Line Data Browser at:
>
> http://imaptools.com/tiger/
>
> Another thing that I'm wondering is: will I need any data in addition to
> the tiger data to be able to generate a nice-looking map like Stephen's?
>
> Thanks,
>
> Ryan T.
>