[Talk-us] NY: replacing county borders

[Brad Neuhauser]

Here's the release schedule for 2010 TIGER shapefiles:
http://www.census.gov/geo/www/tiger/tgrshp2010/release_schedule.html

<http://www.census.gov/geo/www/tiger/tgrshp2010/release_schedule.html>Looks
like New York is only available right now via FTP (there's a link at the
above address).

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:
http://www.census.gov/geo/www/ansi/ansi.html

On Mon, Jan 3, 2011 at 7:42 PM, Richard Welty <rwelty at averillpark.net>wrote:

> On 1/3/11 8:11 PM, Michal Migurski wrote:
>
>>
>> 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?
>>
>>  i haven't yet seen 2010 boundary files of any sort yet. i'd certainly
> prefer to use the, but have no idea what sort of timeline the census
> bureau is working to.
>
> i hadn't thought about retaining the FIPS data, but it seems like a very
> reasonable thing to do, and now is the time to get it in there. is there
> a preferred way of tagging the FIPS codes on a boundary relation? a
> search for FIPS in the wiki doesn't produce anything relevant. if nothing
> turns up, i'll just use a FIPS tag on the boundary relation with a value
> of the state + county codes concatenated in the usual way.
>
> richard
>
>
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