Tiger2008 Released this yesterday

[Stephen Woodbridge]

Hi all,

Sorry for the cross posting, but I figure people on these lists would be
interested in the fact the US Census release Tiger2008 data files yesterday.

http://www.census.gov/geo/www/tiger/tgrshp2008/tgrshp2008.html


Enjoy,
   -Steve
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[Stephen Woodbridge]

Joe Bussell wrote:
> Have they added z-order on overpasses?

Hi Joe,

I think it is unlikely the Census will ever add z-order to the tiger
data. It would be nice, but I wouldn't hold my breath for it.

They did add

TNIDF 10 Integer From TIGER node identifier
TNIDT 10 Integer To TIGER node identifier

To the all edges file which helps with identifying connectedness but
that will not haelp for routing applications.

-Steve

> Joe Bussell
>
>
> On Tue, Dec 9, 2008 at 7:51 AM, Stephen Woodbridge
> <[hidden email] <mailto:[hidden email]>> wrote:
>
>     Hi all,
>
>     Sorry for the cross posting, but I figure people on these lists
>     would be interested in the fact the US Census release Tiger2008 data
>     files yesterday.
>
>     http://www.census.gov/geo/www/tiger/tgrshp2008/tgrshp2008.html
>
>
>     Enjoy,
>      -Steve
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[John P. Linderman]

The names of the directories containing county level files
have changed in a non-trivial way.  For example, what was,
in the 2007 release,

  22_LOUISIANA/22011_Beauregard

is now

  22_LOUISIANA/22011_Beauregard_Parish

and, similarly,

  34_NEW_JERSEY/34039_Union            is now
  34_NEW_JERSEY/34039_Union_County

Since I have some software that refers to county level files
using the county name, like NJUnion (which I find easier to
remember than 34039, although either are accepted), I didn't
want to have to add the _County or _Parish stuff to what
used to work, so I fiddled the software to try a bunch of
suffixes when the "unvarnished" county name didn't match.
Here's a list of suffixes that seemed (to me) to make sense
to be able to leave off.

Borough
Census Area
city
County
Island
Municipality
Municipio
Parish

as found in

02100_Haines_Borough
02180_Nome_Census_Area
29510_St_Louis_city
78010_St_Croix_Island
69120_Tinian_Municipality
72145_Vega_Baja_Municipio

-- jpl
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