[Talk-us] TIGER 2010 Imports

[Jeffrey Ollie]

On Wed, Dec 15, 2010 at 12:26 PM, Ian Dees <ian.dees at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Wed, Dec 15, 2010 at 12:23 PM, Ian Dees <ian.dees at gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>> On Wed, Dec 15, 2010 at 12:22 PM, Jeffrey Ollie <jeff at ocjtech.us> wrote:
>>>
>>> I'd start with getting a wiki page set up with the types of
>>> information that is stored in the TIGER 2010 shapefiles.
>>>
>>
>> Sounds like a great idea.
>
> I created a stub page here: http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/TIGER_2010
> Beyond the metadata mappings, is there any other info that we should store
> on there?

It would be good to document the process for loading the shape files
into a database and setting up mapnik to render from that database.  I
don't have the resources to do the whole US but I'd like to experiment
with my neighborhood.

-- 
Jeff Ollie