For anyone's interest, I've been grabbing the TIGER 2010 shapefiles as they show up and mirroring them here:<div><br></div><div><meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"><a href="http://cube.telascience.org/osm/tiger2010/">http://cube.telascience.org/osm/tiger2010/</a></div>
<div><br></div><div><a href="http://cube.telascience.org/osm/tiger2010/"></a>Their FTP site seems to get very busy at times (<10KBps) so feel free to grab from there.</div><div><br></div><div>I've also grouped the state data into .tgz's if you're interested in a whole state.</div>
<div><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Tue, Jan 4, 2011 at 10:53 AM, Brad Neuhauser <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:brad.neuhauser@gmail.com">brad.neuhauser@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex;">
Here's the release schedule for 2010 TIGER shapefiles: <a href="http://www.census.gov/geo/www/tiger/tgrshp2010/release_schedule.html" target="_blank">http://www.census.gov/geo/www/tiger/tgrshp2010/release_schedule.html</a><div>
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<div><a href="http://www.census.gov/geo/www/tiger/tgrshp2010/release_schedule.html" target="_blank"></a>Looks like New York is only available right now via FTP (there's a link at the above address).</div><div><br></div>
<div>An FYI regarding FIPS, the Census is supporting it for places through this census cycle, but is phasing it out in favor of the GNIS Feature ID maintained by USGS. More info (& acronyms) here: <a href="http://www.census.gov/geo/www/ansi/ansi.html" target="_blank">http://www.census.gov/geo/www/ansi/ansi.html</a><br>
<br><div class="gmail_quote">On Mon, Jan 3, 2011 at 7:42 PM, Richard Welty <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:rwelty@averillpark.net" target="_blank">rwelty@averillpark.net</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
<div>On 1/3/11 8:11 PM, Michal Migurski wrote:<br>
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Sounds like a sane way forward to me. Are you using the new 2010 files that they're slowly releasing? Do you plan to keep all the FIPS info as you go?<br>
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i haven't yet seen 2010 boundary files of any sort yet. i'd certainly<br>
prefer to use the, but have no idea what sort of timeline the census<br>
bureau is working to.<br>
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i hadn't thought about retaining the FIPS data, but it seems like a very<br>
reasonable thing to do, and now is the time to get it in there. is there<br>
a preferred way of tagging the FIPS codes on a boundary relation? a<br>
search for FIPS in the wiki doesn't produce anything relevant. if nothing<br>
turns up, i'll just use a FIPS tag on the boundary relation with a value<br>
of the state + county codes concatenated in the usual way.<br><font color="#888888">
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richard</font><div><div></div><div><br>
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