[Freegis-list] Losing GIS solution...

[Markus Neteler]

On Wed, Jan 19, 2005 at 09:25:15AM +0100, Silke Reimer wrote:
> On Tue, Jan 18, 2005 at 01:53:52PM -0600, Adam Gautier wrote:
> > Yes, I am in the US.  I have been thinking about the Tiger database.  One
> > of my problems is that the data for the tiger database is not in an
> > immediatly usable format(i.e. it still needs to be parsed into a
> > database).  Is there a project that has already parsed tiger into
> > something like PostGIS? Are their parsers for the dataformat?
> 
> Probably somebody has already converted the Tiger data into another
> format.

GRASS 6 can read TIGER data: http://grass.itc.it

 http://grass.itc.it/grass60/manuals/html60_user/v.in.ogr.html
 -> EXAMPLES
    -> TIGER files

This import command is based on the OGR library.

Markus