Excellent news John. Downloads available from http://www.census.gov/geo/www/tiger/tgrshp2008/tgrshp2008.html
National Files http://www2.census.gov/cgi-bin/shapefiles/national-files and even easier FTP ftp://ftp2.census.gov/geo/tiger/TIGER2008/ (use filezilla for FTPing http://filezilla-project.org/) Now if only the UK would allow free downloads of Government owned data, we could really create some excellent mashups. Mapperz http://mapperz.blogspot.com/ On Dec 16, 5:36 am, "maps.huge.info [Maps API Guru]" <[email protected]> wrote: > For those of you who are interested in good, free geo data of the US, > the newest version of Tiger (Tiger2008) has been released. It looks > pretty good, a few oddities, but overall, very up to date. I checked > some new roads that were added in December 2007 and they were in the > data. Potentially, this data would make as good or perhaps a better > geocoder than many offered now, without ANY restrictions on how it is > used. > > I will have a new PostGIS and Tiger geocoder up and running soon. > Imagine unlimited transactions and no restrictions on what you do with > the data. Mmmmm. Free data... > > -John Coryat > > http://maps.huge.info > > http://www.usnaviguide.com --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Google Maps API" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/Google-Maps-API?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
