Comments on: Converting US Census TIGER Data Into Shapefiles For Free http://freegeographytools.com/2007/converting-us-census-tiger-data-into-shapefiles-for-free Exploring the world of free tools for GIS, GPS, Google Earth, neogeography, and more. Mon, 13 Oct 2008 04:47:21 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.6.2 By: Leszek Pawlowicz http://freegeographytools.com/2007/converting-us-census-tiger-data-into-shapefiles-for-free#comment-4885 Leszek Pawlowicz Wed, 19 Mar 2008 15:59:24 +0000 http://freegeographytools.com/?p=57#comment-4885 The coordinate system for TIGER is (I believe) unprojected, latitude/longitude, NAD83. To convert them to a projected coordinate system, you can use a program like MapWindow that has a built-in shapefile re-projection utility; search for MapWindow on this blog for a post on this. The coordinate system for TIGER is (I believe) unprojected, latitude/longitude, NAD83. To convert them to a projected coordinate system, you can use a program like MapWindow that has a built-in shapefile re-projection utility; search for MapWindow on this blog for a post on this.

]]> By: Sam Erickson http://freegeographytools.com/2007/converting-us-census-tiger-data-into-shapefiles-for-free#comment-4870 Sam Erickson Tue, 18 Mar 2008 14:37:21 +0000 http://freegeographytools.com/?p=57#comment-4870 The TIGER files converted painlessly, but I cannot figure out how to get them projected. I think this is probably very easy, but I can't seem to figure it out. Hopefully at some point I can use this feature. Thanks, Sam The TIGER files converted painlessly, but I cannot figure out how to get them projected. I think this is probably very easy, but I can’t seem to figure it out.

Hopefully at some point I can use this feature. Thanks,
Sam

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