Thanks for the help everybody, I guess I was a little unclear.
I need the whole country (translated, not in TIGER format). The actual
whole country, not access to the whole country, but the whole country on
file for use in an application. I have a very nice translation utilities,
TGR2MIF,TGR2SHP. I didn't want to have a huge batch file ka-chunking away
on my computer forever, have to write a batch import program for the mifs,
do mega appends, download stuff from the internet, and all that junk. To
be fair, I have tried the newer TGR2MIF /TGR2SHP and found them to run
much, much faster.
Several people responded and it seems there are cheaper solutions then
going through the census:
Cross streets has TIGER 97 in ArcView, $425.
Avenza has it in .mif ($345) and .shp. ($295). Cheaper if you have
MapPublisher
Blue Marble sells what appears to be TGR2MIF and TGR2SHP bundled with
TIGER97 data, at a bargain price.
http://www.bluemarblegeo.com/datatiger97mapkit.htm
The Geolytics solution seems to require unzipping and translation, they
have managed to get it all on one CD.
http://www.geolytics.com/cdblocks/cdblocks.htm
Other sources of TIGER95 or TIGER97 data are:
topodepot.com
www.manifold.net
and of course!
www.esri.com ,
but these require the big translation.
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