[OSM-talk] US County and State Borders Was: Re: TIGER, which states next?

Dave Hansen dave at sr71.net
Wed Oct 24 18:04:55 BST 2007


On Wed, 2007-10-24 at 10:31 -0400, Ted Mielczarek wrote:
> 
> Yep, they're all TIGER data, provided as shapefiles by the Census
> bureau.  I've already imported the state boundaries for the northeast
> of the US, you can see them in mapnik as dashed red lines.  I didn't
> just throw them all in willy-nilly, I split the borders into sections
> so I could label them left:state and right:state, and I deleted
> overlapping border sections. 

Manually, or programatically?

We'll probably have to automate it to get county boundaries.  There are
just too many of them to do manually.

-- Dave





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