Quick question for you. I don't want to reinvent the wheel. I'm looking to write a script use wget or some such to grab all the 2005fe Tiger files and set up a process to merge the files into some national datasets. I'd like to write the code so that to update to further TIGER releases all you would have to do is change the url for the fetching process.
Things I'd like to end up with: geocoder.us index (is TIGER the source for the city, state and zip lookups too?) streets shapefile either merged or perstate with shape index with overviews (local roads filtered out, roads generalized) Properly generalized/merged base map datasets like congressional districts etc. Basically, I'd like a process that we could give to anyone so they could freely get the most up-to-date US basemap (suitable for Mapserver in my case) possible (rather than paying the several hundred to couple thousand bucks that a lot of folks are charging to do this work). I'm trying to get some national basemaps together for a non-profit I'm doing work for. Any pointers to existing code? Any comments? Anyone else interested in this kind of thing? David _______________________________________________ Geowanking mailing list [email protected] http://lists.burri.to/mailman/listinfo/geowanking
