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

[Ari Jolma]

Charlie Schweik wrote:
> On Fri, 2006-12-08 at 11:15 -0500, Gary Watry wrote:
>   
>> TIGER Data is built off  the U.S. Census data and covers just the U.S.
>>     
>
> Yeah, I was pretty much certain that was the case. I'm just trying to
> think about various international "data inputs" to GIS related to
> social/demographic data and wondered if there was any census data
> standards emerging in the EU or elsewhere or if all countries appear to
> be doing this differently.
>   
I forgot the NUTS:

http://ec.europa.eu/comm/eurostat/ramon/nuts/introduction_regions_en.html

which is a common European system for demographic data and is not 
regular grid.

Ari

> Thanks for your answers (Ari and Gary)
>
> Cheers
> Charlie
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