[Qgis-user] can TIGER vector driver extract 1980 block information

[Nicolas Cadieux]

« Note that the TIGER/Line product does not include census demographic statistics. Those are sold by the Census Bureau in a separate format (not directly supported by FME), but those statistics do relate back to census blocks in TIGER/Line files. »

https://gdal.org/drivers/vector/tiger.html

Nicolas Cadieux
https://gitlab.com/njacadieux

> Le 5 mars 2021 à 12:43, Brian Stults <bstults at fsu.edu> a écrit :
> 
> I am trying to generate a shapefile of 1980 census blocks using the
> 1992 Tiger/Line files. I am able to open the files directly using QGIS,
> and I can create shapefiles using the GDAL TIGER driver. However, these
> methods do not seem to extract the 1980 block information. Perhaps the
> GDAL Tiger driver doesn't pull that info? Is there a way to adapt this
> method, or are there any other methods, for getting a 1980 census block
> shapefile?
> 
> Specifically, I need a 1980 block shapefile to overlay with a more
> recent census block shapefile to examine changed boundaries.
> 
> I realize this is more directly related to GDAL, but I posted a
> question to gdal-dev several months ago and haven't received any
> replies.
> 
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