starbuxman wrote:
Hello everyone,
I'm trying to setup the TIGER geocoder but am new at this sort of thing:
I've already finished the bit where i run import/load_tiger.sh successfully.
I'm using the 2006se TIGER line data. I now have all the PostGIS (on
Postgres 8.3) and two tables Landmarks and CompleteChain (with a
whopping 66 million records!/ 25gb footprint!) that took 28 hours to
install.
Now it says to import the .shp files... Only question is, what shp files?
Here is the listing of the typical archive:
Archive: TGR02164.ZIP
inflating: TGR02164.RT1
inflating: TGR02164.RT2
inflating: TGR02164.RT4
inflating: TGR02164.RT5
inflating: TGR02164.RT6
inflating: TGR02164.RT7
inflating: TGR02164.RT8
inflating: TGR02164.RTA
inflating: TGR02164.RTC
inflating: TGR02164.RTE
inflating: TGR02164.RTH
inflating: TGR02164.RTI
inflating: TGR02164.RTM
inflating: TGR02164.RTP
inflating: TGR02164.RTR
inflating: TGR02164.RTS
inflating: TGR02164.RTT
inflating: TGR02164.RTZ
inflating: TGR02164.MET
Then, finally, looking ahead: I opened up the enxt step which is
lookup_tables.sql and it in turn tries to create tables while drawing
from tables called
co99_d00 and pl99_d00 -- where do these tables get created? How?
These the the shapefiles that you need to load. You can download them
from Census site look for the cartographic boundary files.
I know that the 2007 data is now using .shp files (or at least that's
my understanding) -- do I need to download those, as well? Does that
introduce the risk of data that's not out of sync? For that matter,
what do I do with that data in the first place?
No!, these are a totaly different format and will take a new process to
install them into the geocoder if it is even possible.
-Steve W
Any help is greatly appreciated, thank you,
Joshua Long
http://www.joshlong.com/
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