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[kanaloa]

I know this is a long shot, but does anyone have a way to convert a Tiger file to a ESRI Shapefile for me? Know anyone that works in GIS that might have the tool?

I just don't want to spend $400 on a converter for a single file. But there is no other way to get the Census Bureau's Tiger data into a GIS application.

Thanks

[Knight Rider Profile Website]

Would this work:

http://www.triusinc.com/tivec.htm

[kanaloa]

It does if you pay for it, but only for 2000 census data. I need at least 2004 or 2005 data. I actually tried the program and at the time I didn't think it was working, but now I see it was bc my data was the wrong state and wrong year for the trial software. So at least I figured that part out

[c0ldfyr3 Profile]

i dont know much about this, but will this work?

http://www.gisuser.com/index.php?option ... ecatid=582

[kanaloa]

i dont know much about this, but will this work?

http://www.gisuser.com/index.php?option ... ecatid=582

That's the actual data for Tiger.

Long explanation made short. The Census releases this data in Tiger format every year (or every few years) in a format (Tiger line files). I think they are actually ASCII files. Anyway, the GIS programs need a specific type of file to recognize the data, and in my case using ESRI (the largest GIS tool), it's a shapefile I need.

Unfortunately there are no free converters I can find. Others have reported the same. I know there has to be a way to do it though, as I'm positive we used Tiger data back in college, so we had to have converted it somehow.