[Talk-us] NY: replacing county borders

[Ian Dees]

For anyone's interest, I've been grabbing the TIGER 2010 shapefiles as they
show up and mirroring them here:

http://cube.telascience.org/osm/tiger2010/

<http://cube.telascience.org/osm/tiger2010/>Their FTP site seems to get very
busy at times (<10KBps) so feel free to grab from there.

I've also grouped the state data into .tgz's if you're interested in a whole
state.

On Tue, Jan 4, 2011 at 10:53 AM, Brad Neuhauser <brad.neuhauser at gmail.com>wrote:

> 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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