[Talk-us] NY: replacing county borders

[Brad Neuhauser]

On Tue, Jan 4, 2011 at 11:24 AM, Richard Welty <rwelty at averillpark.net>wrote:

> On 1/4/11 11:53 AM, Brad Neuhauser wrote:
>
>> Here's the release schedule for 2010 TIGER shapefiles:
>> 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).
>>
>>  yes, i found them, trying to sort through them now.
>
> there's no published release schedule for the boundary extracts at
> http://www.census.gov/geo/www/cob/ which is what i've been
> working with.
>
> All recent Census data has been released in shapefile format.  The
Cartographic Boundary files at the link you sent are old and I kind of doubt
they're going to be updated anymore.  (I was wondering when you were talking
about arcinfo files...)


>  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
>>
> hopefully they'll publish a mapping from FIPS to the new
> Feature IDs at some point. in any case, i'm going to wait for
> the new boundary extracts and spend the intervening time
> looking at the Tiger 2010 data.
>

I think at the bottom of this page (State Files with Federal Codes)?
http://geonames.usgs.gov/domestic/download_data.htm


>
>
richard
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