On Sun, May 06, 2007 at 09:16:59AM -0600, we recorded a bogon-computron collision of the <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> flavor, containing: > On Sat, May 05, 2007 at 10:12:51PM -0700, we recorded a bogon-computron > collision of the <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> flavor, containing: > > Hi all, > > I've been beating my head against the wall of the > > Tiger 2006 maps that I downloaded from xastir.tamu.edu > > (which seems to be down right now). I get several things > > that don't work well about those maps. One is a lack of > > colors, the other is no fills anywhere. No water fills, no > > parks, no built-up city areas, nothing. I've tried every option > > I can play with, including messing with the dbfawk files and > > I get nothing like the maps I get from the Online/tigermap.geo > > server. > > If I recall correctly, the person who generated those maps only generated > the polyline versions, not the polygon versions.
I just checked. Gerry pointed me at aprs.tamu.edu (anonymous FTP site) and I see that indeed only the line files for the TIGER 2006 files were ever generated. I am currently in the process of downloading all of the TIGER 2006 Second Edition data and processing it --- my process will generate both the line and polygon data. This process will take several days, as the polygon generation is slow and there are many, many files to convert. Once I finish, I'll get with Gerry and figure out how to upload them to aprs.tamu.edu. Watch this space for an announcment when I finish and the files are available. Gerry says that the xastir.tamu.edu machine crashed hard and is not back yet. No apparent ETA to its return. -- Tom Russo KM5VY SAR502 DM64ux http://www.swcp.com/~russo/ Tijeras, NM QRPL#1592 K2#398 SOC#236 AHTB#1 http://kevan.org/brain.cgi?DDTNM "And, isn't sanity really just a one-trick pony anyway? I mean all you get is one trick, rational thinking, but when you're good and crazy, oooh, oooh, oooh, the sky is the limit!" --- The Tick _______________________________________________ Xastir mailing list [email protected] http://lists.xastir.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/xastir
