[Benchmarking] Styling tiger_tracs
Smith, Michael ERDC-USACE-NH
michael.smith at usace.army.mil
Thu Sep 3 10:11:48 EDT 2009
Andrea,
How about a semitransparent fill? That is the kind of style commonly used
for these kind of administrative bounds.
Something like a 30% fill?
--
Michael Smith
RSGIS Center
US Army Corps of Engineers
On 9/3/09 10:04 AM, "Andrea Aime" <aaime at opengeo.org> wrote:
> Hi,
> the polygon layer we have there covers is related to census tracs
> for the whole united states.
>
> The data is boring as it can be:
> gid | integer |
> statefp00 | character varying(2) |
> countyfp00 | character varying(3) |
> tractce00 | character varying(6) |
> ctidfp00 | character varying(11) |
> name00 | character varying(100) |
> namelsad00 | character varying(100) |
> mtfcc00 | character varying(5) |
> funcstat00 | character varying(1) |
> the_geom | geometry |
>
> Most of those attributes are in fact numeric codes,
> see attached text file.
>
> Not sure we can make any sensible thematic map
> out of this.
> Yet, it's not uncommon for polygons to be
> just depicted as a reference background,
> especially when it comes to administrative
> borders.
>
> Maybe for this one we could simply decide to
> make a solid fill, solid outline map?
> Would play well with with the choice of drawing it
> to GIF without antialiasing.
>
> Cheers
> Andrea
>
>
> Andrea Aime
> OpenGeo - http://opengeo.org
> Expert service straight from the developers.
>
> select statefp00, countyfp00, tractce00, ctidfp00, name00, namelsad00,
> mtfcc00, funcstat00 from tiger_tracts_pg
>
> statefp00 | countyfp00 | tractce00 | ctidfp00 | name00 | namelsad00
> | mtfcc00 | funcstat00
> -----------+------------+-----------+-------------+---------+-----------------
> -----+---------+------------
> 36 | 081 | 032800 | 36081032800 | 328 | Census Tract 328
> | G5020 | S
> 36 | 081 | 009600 | 36081009600 | 96 | Census Tract 96
> | G5020 | S
> 36 | 081 | 065900 | 36081065900 | 659 | Census Tract 659
> | G5020 | S
> 36 | 081 | 006300 | 36081006300 | 63 | Census Tract 63
> | G5020 | S
> 36 | 081 | 060300 | 36081060300 | 603 | Census Tract 603
> | G5020 | S
> 36 | 081 | 056600 | 36081056600 | 566 | Census Tract 566
> | G5020 | S
> 36 | 081 | 063302 | 36081063302 | 633.02 | Census Tract
> 633.02 | G5020 | S
> 36 | 081 | 138502 | 36081138502 | 1385.02 | Census Tract
> 1385.02 | G5020 | S
> 36 | 081 | 068300 | 36081068300 | 683 | Census Tract 683
> | G5020 | S
> 36 | 081 | 112300 | 36081112300 | 1123 | Census Tract
> 1123 | G5020 | S
> 36 | 081 | 049600 | 36081049600 | 496 | Census Tract 496
> | G5020 | S
> 36 | 081 | 007100 | 36081007100 | 71 | Census Tract 71
> | G5020 | S
> 36 | 081 | 046500 | 36081046500 | 465 | Census Tract 465
> | G5020 | S
> 36 | 081 | 070900 | 36081070900 | 709 | Census Tract 709
> | G5020 | S
> 36 | 081 | 024600 | 36081024600 | 246 | Census Tract 246
> | G5020 | S
> 36 | 081 | 067102 | 36081067102 | 671.02 | Census Tract
> 671.02 | G5020 | S
> 36 | 081 | 058500 | 36081058500 | 585 | Census Tract 585
> | G5020 | S
> 36 | 081 | 122701 | 36081122701 | 1227.01 | Census Tract
> 1227.01 | G5020 | S
> 36 | 081 | 051600 | 36081051600 | 516 | Census Tract 516
> | G5020 | S
> 36 | 081 | 099200 | 36081099200 | 992 | Census Tract 992
> | G5020 | S
> 36 | 081 | 062700 | 36081062700 | 627 | Census Tract 627
> | G5020 | S
> 36 | 081 | 040700 | 36081040700 | 407 | Census Tract 407
> | G5020 | S
> 36 | 081 | 134700 | 36081134700 | 1347 | Census Tract
> 1347 | G5020 | S
> 36 | 081 | 076600 | 36081076600 | 766 | Census Tract 766
> | G5020 | S
> 36 | 081 | 002800 | 36081002800 | 28 | Census Tract 28
> | G5020 | S
> 36 | 081 | 075700 | 36081075700 | 757 | Census Tract 757
> | G5020 | S
> 36 | 081 | 045900 | 36081045900 | 459 | Census Tract 459
> | G5020 | S
> 36 | 081 | 053200 | 36081053200 | 532 | Census Tract 532
> | G5020 | S
> 36 | 081 | 037300 | 36081037300 | 373 | Census Tract 373
> | G5020 | S
> 36 | 081 | 023000 | 36081023000 | 230 | Census Tract 230
> | G5020 | S
> 36 | 081 | 021400 | 36081021400 | 214 | Census Tract 214
> | G5020 | S
> 36 | 081 | 004500 | 36081004500 | 45 | Census Tract 45
> | G5020 | S
> 36 | 081 | 015000 | 36081015000 | 150 | Census Tract 150
> | G5020 | S
> 36 | 081 | 028100 | 36081028100 | 281 | Census Tract 281
> | G5020 | S
> 36 | 081 | 035500 | 36081035500 | 355 | Census Tract 355
> | G5020 | S
> 36 | 081 | 020800 | 36081020800 | 208 | Census Tract 208
> | G5020 | S
> 36 | 081 | 050700 | 36081050700 | 507 | Census Tract 507
> | G5020 | S
> 36 | 081 | 017800 | 36081017800 | 178 | Census Tract 178
> | G5020 | S
> 36 | 081 | 098700 | 36081098700 | 987 | Census Tract 987
> | G5020 | S
> 36 | 081 | 006100 | 36081006100 | 61 | Census Tract 61
> | G5020 | S
> 36 | 081 | 145900 | 36081145900 | 1459 | Census Tract
> 1459 | G5020 | S
> 36 | 081 | 001400 | 36081001400 | 14 | Census Tract 14
> | G5020 | S
> 36 | 081 | 036900 | 36081036900 | 369 | Census Tract 369
> | G5020 | S
> 36 | 081 | 051200 | 36081051200 | 512 | Census Tract 512
> | G5020 | S
> 36 | 081 | 086500 | 36081086500 | 865 | Census Tract 865
> | G5020 | S
> 36 | 081 | 058000 | 36081058000 | 580 | Census Tract 580
> | G5020 | S
> 36 | 081 | 001600 | 36081001600 | 16 | Census Tract 16
> | G5020 | S
> ...
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