http://www.caliper.com/cblocks.htm
about $300 for the software, about $3000 for the data in a seamless ready to
use package. it can also export mif and numerous other file types
-----Original Message-----
From: Charles Huyck <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Date: Thursday, March 25, 1999 9:39 PM
Subject: MI Sum:TIGER Block data-all US.
>
>
>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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