[Gdal-dev] OGR: TIGER/Line polygons

[Curt, WE7U]

On Wed, 20 Oct 2004, Frank Warmerdam wrote:

> warmerda at gdal2200[226]% ~/gdal/pymod/samples/tigerpoly.py . poly.shp

That's exactly the invocation that came the closest to working for
me, but with Tiger2003 data I ended up with a very large shapefile
that contained all of the roads, rivers, and lakes.


> You can write C++ code that does essentially the same thing as the tigerpoly.py.
> In particular, there is a C and C++ analog to the ogr.BuildPolygonFromEdges()
> call used by that script.

Yep, I'll work on something like that in C next, once I understand
what it's doing.

Thanks.

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