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TIGER Data Finally Out SHP Format
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The Free Geography Tools site brings us news about this data. From their summary : "Over a year ago, I posted about the transition of US Census TIGER vector data from their non-standard format to shapefile format. Despite what you might have read elsewhere, the new TIGER shapefiles hadn’t been released yet … until today. They’ve been saying for months now that they expected to release them in March of 2008, and they made it just under the wire."
To get the link to download the data, please visit the Free Geography Tools site.
To get the link to download the data, please visit the Free Geography Tools site.
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