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[Walt Lin]

I use shp files as well for the tiger line files-- I converted the files
to shp using tgr2shp (www.gistools.com).  THat was a while ago, I don't
know if there are any other methods or if there are freely available shp
files with all of the tiger data (tgr2shp cost something like $100 and
only runs on Windows-- I had to setup samba to get my windows machine to
process the data on the linux server).

On Sat, Feb 09, 2002 at 09:15:46AM -0500, Stephen Woodbridge wrote:
> Sathis,
> 
> If you expect to get more than a few token hits on your server for
> demonstration purposes, you need to seriously consider translating the
> tigerline data to shape files as you will have big performance problems
> otherwise. If you ever plan to expand your data beyond one state you
> will need to use shapefiles also. The Census offers a bunch of boundary
> shapefiles now on its website for download, I don't think they have the
> street level files. Here are two layer definitions I use in my map file
> that might help, but I use shapefiles not OGR:
> 
> LAYER
>   NAME county
>   MAXSCALE 799999
>   TYPE POLYGON
>   STATUS ON
>   TILEINDEX "tgrindex"
>   DATA county
>   CLASS
>     NAME "Counties"
>     COLOR -1 -1 -1
>     OUTLINECOLOR 128 128 128
>   END
> 
>   METADATA
>     "DESCRIPTION" "County"
>     "RESULT_FIELDS" "COUNTY STATE SSCCC"
>   END
> 
>   HEADER "html/cty_header.html"
>   FOOTER "html/cty_footer.html"
>   TEMPLATE "html/cty.html"
> 
>   TOLERANCE 3
> END
> 
> LAYER
>   NAME streets
>   MAXSCALE 59999
>   STATUS ON
>   TILEINDEX "tgrindex"
>   DATA minroads
>   TYPE LINE
>   LABELITEM "NAME"
>   CLASS
>     NAME "Streets"
>     SYMBOL "circle"
>     COLOR 0 0 0
>     SIZE 4
>     OVERLAYSYMBOL "circle"
>     OVERLAYCOLOR 255 255 255
>     OVERLAYSIZE 2
>     LABEL
>       ANGLE AUTO
>       TYPE TRUETYPE
>       ANTIALIAS TRUE
>       FONT arial-bold
>       MINFEATURESIZE 10
>       MINDISTANCE 300
>       POSITION UC
>       BUFFER 4
>       SIZE 8
>       COLOR 0 0 0
>       OUTLINECOLOR 255 255 204
>     END
>   END
> 
>   METADATA
>     "DESCRIPTION" "Surface Streets"
>     "RESULT_FIELDS" "TLID NAME CFCC FRADDL TOADDL FRADDR TOADDR ZIPL
> ZIPR RTE_NUM"
>   END
> 
>   HEADER "html/roads_header.html"
>   FOOTER "html/roads_footer.html"
>   TEMPLATE "html/roads.html"
> 
>   TOLERANCE 3
> END # streets
> 
> 
> -Steve
> 
> Sathiskumar Govindasamy wrote:
> > 
> > Hi,
> > 
> > Thanks for your reply. Yes I wanted to go to street level mapping in the
> > coming days, but I wanted to start with atleast the US and state boundaries
> > with Interstates on it now. I have downloaded the Tiger Line 2000 data for
> > Illinois. I have installed OGR and I am able to see the information through
> > ogrinfo. But, how to I write template file and .map file with layers ? I
> > would greatly appreciate your help.
> > 
> > Thanks
> > Sathis
> > At 11:34 PM 2/8/2002 -0500, Walt Lin wrote:
> > >If you just want to draw the state outlines and labels, don't use
> > >TIGER-- use files from nationalatlas.gov .  If you need street level
> > >data for the whole US, then tiger is the way to go.  Nationalatlas
> > >should have just one layer for states-- setup your .map file for just
> > >one layer and off you go.
> > >
> > >On Fri, Feb 08, 2002 at 05:18:22PM -0600, Sathiskumar Govindasamy wrote:
> > > > Hello,
> > > >
> > > > I am new to Mapserver. I don't know where to start. I tried to go
> > > > through tutorial I couldn't get much out of it. I wanted the mapserver
> > > > to generate map of US with states marked. I was told to use Tiger Line
> > > > data. I don't loaded tigerline files for Illinois and also boundary line
> > > > shapefiles for all the state states. Can someone tell me how to start or
> > > > point me to some site where they have explained how to use Tiger data ?
> > > >
> > > > Thanks
> > > > Sathis
> > > >
> > > >
> > > >
> 
>