[Talk-us] Tiger 2008 Data

[Paul Fox]

ian wrote:
 > I just e-mailed the Census Bureau, and the friendly woman on the other end
 > told me that they were planning on releasing "TIGER/Line 2008" by the end of
 > this year. Keep that in mind when we are talking about importing 2007 data.
 > She said to keep an eye on the TIGER website (
 > http://www.census.gov/geo/www/tiger/) for updates about the 2008 data.

does the census bureau publish any sort of a "diff", or "delta" dataset?
i'd think that just in terms of raw crunching that having just the
differences from year to year would save a lot of work, both manual
and CPU-cycles.

paul
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 paul fox, pgf at foxharp.boston.ma.us (arlington, ma, where it's  degrees)