[Freegis-list] Re: [mapserver-users] Strategy for dealing with Census Data?

[Frank Warmerdam]

Frank Koormann wrote:
> Wonder why not mentioned yet, but OGR can deal with TIGER/Line, so
> ogr2ogr might be an alternative:
> 
> http://gdal.velocet.ca/projects/opengis/

Folks,

I would note that the OGR support for Tiger doesn't currently form the
polygons from the lines; however, since the basic polygons are rarely
of great interest perhaps this doesn't matter.

Best regards,
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