On Tue, 20 Feb 2007, Tom Russo wrote: > When I first mapped out the process for doing the conversions I wrote a > simple script that did the ogr2ogr and the Xastir-tigerpoly.py for each > of the tiger files for a whole state, and extracted the county name from > the ".MET" file to use as the file name. I think I still have that script > lying around at work and can provide it here (it's very simple and never > seemed significant enough to add to the scripts directory, and I was lazy > and hardcoded some of the title parsing stuff in a way that had to be > hand-edited for each state). I think Derrick Brashear did something a little > more clever with it when he did the 2004 files to be placed on > xastir.tamu.edu.
It wouldn't be a bad idea to add that script or Derrick's script(s) to CVS for future rounds of map-making. -- Curt, WE7U. APRS Client Comparisons: http://www.eskimo.com/~archer "Lotto: A tax on people who are bad at math." -- unknown "Windows: Microsoft's tax on computer illiterates." -- WE7U "The world DOES revolve around me: I picked the coordinate system!" _______________________________________________ Xastir mailing list [email protected] http://lists.xastir.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/xastir
