Stephen,
Have you yet tried overlaying TIGER 2007 linework or census block/tract
polygons over Google or OpenStreetMap tiles? I'm seeing a good match in
some areas but a significant shift (~50 meters) in others. Thought it
might be a datum conversion issue, but can't seem to find a match.
Jonathan
On Thu, 2008-04-03 at 17:07 -0400, Stephen Frost wrote:
> * Stephen Frost ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote:
> > I think they may have also upgraded their pipe.. I got about 1.41MB/s
> > (11 Mb/s) for the whole transfer. It's about 22G all told. I'll
> > probably be trying to load it up into PG on one of our servers tomorrow.
> > It was a bit over 4 hours for me to pull down off of their
> > ftp2.census.gov ftp site.
>
> Just to update those who might be interested- I've finished the data
> load into one of our servers at work. It comes to ~60GB on disk in
> PostgreSQL/PostGIS with appropriate indexes in most places and whatnot.
> Based on what I've seen so far, it looks *very* nice, especially the
> hydrogrophy ("areawater"). It also appears to be pretty consistant
> across the layers, which is also good.
>
> If anyone's interested in the scripts used to load the data (they're
> pretty simple, really), I'd be happy to provide them.
>
> Enjoy,
>
> Stephen
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