[Talk-us] Tiger 2008 Data

[Paul Fox]

ian wrote:
 > On Tue, Oct 28, 2008 at 11:33 AM, Paul Fox <pgf at foxharp.boston.ma.us> wrote:
 > 
 > >
 > > 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.
 > >
 > >
 > I don't think so, but since the data Dave imported into OSM was with the old
 > format (TIGER/Line) and the TIGER 2007/2008 data is in shapefile format, we
 > wouldn't really be able to use diff data anyway.

yes -- i was really thinking of ongoing work, since you brought up 2008.
(it's not like this is the last time the to-import-or-not question will
come up.)

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