Fw: Re: [Gdal-dev] TIGER lines

fyi, here are details about converting TIGER data into shapefiles.


regards,
Hamish



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Date: Mon, 16 May 2005 10:08:13 -0400
From: Frank Warmerdam <[email protected]>
To: gdal-dev <[email protected]>
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Subject: Re: [Gdal-dev] TIGER lines


On 5/14/05, Schuyler Erle <[email protected]> wrote:
> * On 13-May-2005 at  9:36PM PDT, Aleksey Naumov said:
> >
> > Does anyone know of a way to import line features from TIGER files
> > in GDAL? The tigerpoly.py script builds a shapefile of polygon
> > features, but how do I extract linear features, e.g. roads?
> 
> ogr2ogr will do this directly. You can use the -where option to filter
> line features by CFCC.

Aleksey,

Schuyler is correct.  In particular, the linear features are the
CompleteChain
layer.  So to get them all you would do:

  ogr2ogr out.shp TGR10001.RT1 CompleteChain

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