Bob:

>I'm trying to overlay the 1990 block groups onto the 2000 block
>groups. These are the geography/data cds that I bought from Caliper.
>
>What happens is the overlay starts to process. and then it stops with
>the message "Encountered topological problems when processing
>polygons 14708142 and 18188130. Error at or near coordianate (-
>119571922,364891287) Click OK to continue. Reference info:
>aggr,321,0."

This stems from errors in the original TIGER/Line files: they were not 
topologically correct there!

>My goal is to calculate some changes in demographics. Like the growth
>in hispanic population from 1990 to 2000.

Please check out the Time Series Data at 
(http://www.caliper.com/DataCDs/PopulationEstimates.htm). We have done the 
heavy lifting for you.


Peter

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