All Tiger data for download?

[Jeff Hoffmann]

Camden Daily wrote:
> Does anyone know an easy way to obtain all of the Tiger/Line
> shapefiles for the entire United States?  I know ESRI has it all, but
> it would be a pain to use their interface to grab it for the entire
> US.
>
> I'd prefer a free ftp site (but I assume no one is so generous as to
> donate that kind of bandwidth).  Alternately, I'd like to purchase all
> of the data on CD/DVD.  I contacted ESRI, but they won't sell it like
> that for some reason.

This isn't free, but I'd say it's pretty cheap: download the raw TIGER
from http://www.census.gov/geo/www/tiger/index.html and then buy TGR2SHP
($75 at gistools.com) to convert to shape files yourself.

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Jeff Hoffmann
jeff at propertykey.com