[Gdal-dev] OGR: TIGER/Line polygons

[Frank Warmerdam]

Curt, WE7U wrote:
> 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.

Curt,

You ended up with all the roads, rivers and lakes as just line features,
not polygons?  That would be really weird.  Of course, the resulting polygons
are going to have all the roads, rivers and lakes as their borders.  It is a
topological coverage for the area in questions.

Best regards,
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