All Tiger data for download?

[Steve Wormley]

I'm sure the census didn't like it, but I just the other day did a wget of
the whole set and then used ogr2ogr to convert them all to various
shapefiles as I needed them.

For instance, to create the major roads (CFCC of A1*) after unzipping all
the .zip files I ran the following command:

find tiger/www2.census.gov/ -type d -iname 'tgr?????' | xargs -n1
~/mktiger.sh

and the mktiger.sh script:

#! /bin/bash
out=`echo $1 | awk -F/ '{print $6}'`
outb=`echo $1 | awk -F/ '{print $7}'`
ogr2ogr -f "ESRI Shapefile" -where "CFCC like 'A1%'" -nln $outb
maps/us/majorroads/$out $1 CompleteChain

(Sorry about the wrapping. And for right now I can't make the data files
available to the public.)

The major roads after conversion were about 128MB.
The minor roads (everything except A1*) were around 11GB.
The compressed tiger files appear to be about 4.5GB.
The uncompressed version of the tiger files are about 42GB.

-Steve Wormley

On 3/3/05 3:49 PM, "Jeff Portwine" <jdport at VERITIME.COM> wrote:

> I've been looking for an easier way to get it too.
> If i could get it I'd be happy to provide dvd's just for cost of media and
> shipping... but getting the data is a real pain.
>
> -Jeff
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Camden Daily" <cdaily at GMAIL.COM>
> To: <MAPSERVER-USERS at LISTS.UMN.EDU>
> Sent: Thursday, March 03, 2005 3:28 PM
> Subject: [UMN_MAPSERVER-USERS] All Tiger data for download?
>
>
>> 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.
>>
>> Any advice would be welcome.
>>
>> -Camden Daily
>>