OT: City boundries with Tiger dataset

[Kyle Cronan]

On Sun, 2005-04-17 at 18:47, tof2p at NETSCAPE.NET wrote:
> Does anyone know how to draw city boundries and names using the tiger dataset.
> I've converted the tiger set using ogr2ogr into a postgresql database... but I
> don't know how/if I can draw the city boundries and the names.
>
> Thank you
> -Bob

In my opinion, the easiest way is to download the designated places data
directly from ESRI's website:

http://www.esri.com/data/download/census2000_tigerline/index.html

They will let you download that layer a single state at a time, as a
collection of shapefiles, one for each county.

The TIGER/line source data has to be processed to identify these
polygons.  I don't believe any software that does this is freely
available (anyone know otherwise?).  However, the data available on
ESRI's site appears to be distributed under the same terms as the
TIGER/line files.

Kyle Cronan
<kyle at pbx.org>