US Street Map (fwd)

[Scott Phillips]

Paul,

There is an converter for windows that costs about $100.00 called TGR2SHP.
I used it to convert the State of California set to shape files and it 
worked great.  It lets you do the conversions straight from the .ZIP files
and you can do them in batch.   See http://www.gistools.com if you want
more info.

Scott

Scott Phillips
scott at phillipsgis.com

> 
> I plan to put up a map of the entire US including every street, freeway, city,
> county, etc. I have all the data, but I need to convert it into the proper
> format. The data files are currently in TIGER/Line format as text files (see
> http://www.perens.com or fpt://ftp.perens.com/pub/US-map for more info). Each
> file is a separate TIGER/Line record type. I've heard there are a lot of
> converter programs available. Is there a converter for this format that will put
> the data in the format necessary for MapServer - to convert it into ESRI format
> .shp, .shx, and .dbf files?
> 
> Thanks,
> 
> PGA
> 
> P.S. - If anyone is wanting to D/L the data, fair warning: it took me most of
> the night on my 1.5MB/sec cable modem. It's 2.6GB of bzipped text files in 57
> different directories. I'm glad I have NcFTP! :)
> 
>