All Tiger data for download?

[Jeff Hoffmann]

Camden Daily wrote:

> What's the difference between using ogr2ogr and tgr2shp for converting
> the data to shapefiles? If the free utility can do it, why should I
> purchase tgr2shp?

I don't know much about OGR.  I contemplated it at one time, but I saw
some messages on the mailing list about people having problems & decided
it wasn't worth my time.  I can tell you that TGR2SHP is really slick --
it's easy to use & I've had no problems.  I don't think I've ever heard
a bad word about it, as a matter of fact.  You just pick one or more of
the zipped TIGER source files, tell it what layers you want & just let
it go.  Also if you've downloaded TIGER from ESRI, I think that you'll
end up with the same extracts.

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Jeff Hoffmann
jeff at propertykey.com