[Talk-us] County lines vs. TIGER roads

Nathan Edgars II neroute2 at gmail.com
Thu Jun 24 06:22:46 BST 2010


On Thu, Jun 24, 2010 at 12:41 AM, Val Kartchner <val42k at gmail.com> wrote:
> Is there a way that we could get higher resolution county line
> boundaries from anywhere?  I expect not, but I figured I'd ask.  I'll
> plan to continue to correct these manually.

The TIGER county boundaries should be better than the existing USGS
data: http://www2.census.gov/cgi-bin/shapefiles2009/national-files

For some reason the TIGER import didn't include these, nor "minor"
types of municipalities (mainly townships - "County Subdivision
(Current)" in the by-state downloads), but did have those silly
census-designated places.




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