[Gdal-dev] TIGER lines

[Frank Warmerdam]

On 5/14/05, Schuyler Erle <schuyler at nocat.net> wrote:
> * On 13-May-2005 at  9:36PM PDT, Aleksey Naumov said:
> >
> > Does anyone know of a way to import line features from TIGER files in GDAL?
> > The tigerpoly.py script builds a shapefile of polygon features, but how do I
> > extract linear features, e.g. roads?
> 
> ogr2ogr will do this directly. You can use the -where option to filter
> line features by CFCC.

Aleksey,

Schuyler is correct.  In particular, the linear features are the CompleteChain
layer.  So to get them all you would do:

  ogr2ogr out.shp TGR10001.RT1 CompleteChain

Best regards,
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