US Street Map

[imap at chesapeake.net]

Banister (very cool name),

That TGR2SHP is the way to go (www.gistools.com) on this one.
It does ENTIRE cdroms in batches...  (I had requested this
feature about a year ago, and he did it).  There is so much
data, you have to automate as much as possible.

I work with this Tiger data all the time and that product
is just the ticket...  The only trick is to post-process
the files to get them in the correct projection.  I wrote
my own projection tool for doing this... using PROJ4
which can be found on the net as well... 

ftp://kai.er.usgs.gov/pub/PROJ.4/

Regards,

Chris Stuber (mapsurfer)


Banister Trevor wrote:
> 
> If you have ArcView, there is a free Avenue script at:
> http://gis.esri.com/arcscripts/details.cfm?CFGRIDKEY=1270853054
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Paul G. Allen [mailto:pgallen at randomlogic.com]
> Sent: Friday, October 08, 1999 2:15 PM
> To: MapServer Users List
> Subject: US Street Map
> 
> 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! :)

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Chris Stuber (mapsurfer)
287 Southland Ct
Dunkirk, MD  20754