[postgis-users] spatial_ref_sys for Tiger files?

[Paul Ramsey]

Almost certainly 4269 (geographic, nad83).
That won't fix your distance problem, but at least then you can do 
local transforms to planar systems for analytical purposes.
P

On Sunday, January 9, 2005, at 10:32 AM, Lucas Burke wrote:

> Hi, does anyone know the srid I should use for Tiger files that I load 
> into PostGIS? I successfully loaded the data using shp2pg with an srid 
> of -1, but obviously the distance() function is returning (I think?) 
> useless numbers. I searched everywhere for this srid, including trying 
> to match a srtext string to the absolute lack of technical information 
> on the tiger data. Thanks in advance. Lucas.
>
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