Re: [Talk-us] TIGER 2013 Places shapefile for PA?

2013-10-08 Thread Paul Norman
From: stevea [mailto:stevea...@softworkers.com] Sent: Monday, October 07, 2013 10:53 PM Subject: Re: [Talk-us] TIGER 2013 Places shapefile for PA? Now, is there a method (as neat and easy as using itoworld) that renders both ways and relations? I mean for admin_levels, especially

Re: [Talk-us] TIGER 2013 Places shapefile for PA?

2013-10-08 Thread Richard Welty
On 10/8/13 2:53 AM, Paul Norman wrote: I'd say the biggest problem is ways that almost overlap and should be shared, but don't what i'm seeing in the northeast is that county boundaries were brought in from a USGS data set that wasn't particularly accurate, and many places (cities, villages,

[Talk-us] TIGER 2013 Places shapefile for PA?

2013-10-07 Thread Richard Welty
i know that probably nobody has a copy of this but when i went to grab it from the census bureau website this morning i was reminded that USGov is mostly shut down right now. so does anyone have a copy of the 2013 zip file or shape file for places (villages, hamlets, cdps) in Pennsylvania they

Re: [Talk-us] TIGER 2013 Places shapefile for PA?

2013-10-07 Thread Ian Dees
I don't have 2013, but I do have 2012 place files here: https://census-backup.s3.amazonaws.com/index.html You might try poking around Mike Migurski's collection too: http://forever.codeforamerica.org/Census-API/shutdown-2013.html On Mon, Oct 7, 2013 at 8:14 AM, Richard Welty

Re: [Talk-us] TIGER 2013 Places shapefile for PA?

2013-10-07 Thread Richard Welty
On 10/7/13 9:17 AM, Ian Dees wrote: I don't have 2013, but I do have 2012 place files here: https://census-backup.s3.amazonaws.com/index.html You might try poking around Mike Migurski's collection too: http://forever.codeforamerica.org/Census-API/shutdown-2013.html thanks. it turns out

Re: [Talk-us] TIGER 2013 Places shapefile for PA?

2013-10-07 Thread Richard Welty
On 10/7/13 9:46 AM, Richard Welty wrote: ks. it turns out that all the by-state places shapefiles (and from the looks of it, nearly all if not all of the others) are in Mike's collection. actually, it's missing county subdivisions, but i don't need that, just the places file. i have 2013 county

Re: [Talk-us] TIGER 2013 Places shapefile for PA?

2013-10-07 Thread Richard Welty
On 10/7/13 1:22 PM, Michal Migurski wrote: On Oct 7, 2013, at 6:46 AM, Richard Welty wrote: On 10/7/13 9:17 AM, Ian Dees wrote: I don't have 2013, but I do have 2012 place files here: https://census-backup.s3.amazonaws.com/index.html You might try poking around Mike Migurski's collection

Re: [Talk-us] TIGER 2013 Places shapefile for PA?

2013-10-07 Thread stevea
This reminds me of how patchy old USA looks when viewed with itoworld's admin_level render http://www.itoworld.com/map/2?lon=-95lat=37zoom=5fullscreen=true especially at county level (admin_level=6 orange). Some states are snap-sharp beautiful (Michigan, Dakotas, Carolinas, New Mexico), some

Re: [Talk-us] TIGER 2013 Places shapefile for PA?

2013-10-07 Thread Toby Murray
That ITO map seems to be only looking at ways. If you include relations in the analysis things should actually be pretty good. There should be a (mostly) correct boundary relation for every county in the US. At one point I was the last user to have touched about 40% of them... There may very well

Re: [Talk-us] TIGER 2013 Places shapefile for PA?

2013-10-07 Thread stevea
Toby, thank you very much for that clarification. I see the ito admin map does not respect relations at the city level but couldn't really prove it and/or got befuddled at the county level. Seeing the itoworld rendering at the California/Arizona/Mexico border really stymied me until I