[postgis-users] TIGER/Line Shapefiles released

Dan Putler dan.putler at sauder.ubc.ca
Mon Mar 31 18:06:29 PDT 2008


Unfortunately, the data isn't what one would hope for. It appears that
the 2007 release will not include address range or zip code information,
but later releases (2008?) will. Here is the link to the right point in
the FAQ: http://www.census.gov/geo/www/tiger/faq.html#18

Dan

On Mon, 2008-03-31 at 20:57 -0400, Stephen Frost wrote:
> * Peter Foley (pwfoley at gmail.com) wrote:
> > For those of you who have been waiting, the Census bureau finally released
> > the new TIGER/Line shapefiles.
> > The information page and download links are here:
> > http://www.census.gov/geo/www/tiger/tgrshp2007/tgrshp2007.html
> 
> Yup, *finally*.
> 
> > This download page is more wget-friendly:
> > http://www2.census.gov/geo/tiger/TIGER2007FE/
> 
> I think they may have also upgraded their pipe..  I got about 1.41MB/s
> (11 Mb/s) for the whole transfer.  It's about 22G all told.  I'll
> probably be trying to load it up into PG on one of our servers tomorrow.
> It was a bit over 4 hours for me to pull down off of their
> ftp2.census.gov ftp site.
> 
> lftp ftp2.census.gov:/geo/tiger/TIGER2007FE> mirror .
> Total: 3313 directories, 56534 files, 0 symlinks
> New: 56520 files, 0 symlinks
> 22363894773 bytes transferred in 15137 seconds (1.41M/s)
> 
> 	Enjoy,
> 
> 		Stephen
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Dan Putler
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