I'm trying to find the bounding box of US cities but I just can't seem to figure out what to do with the TIGER data I download (not to mention, which data to download!). Could someone experienced with TIGER data (or shapefile) help me with this?
How do I read/extract TIGER data to grab bounding box of cities? Trying to find lat/lon points that bound the city. Thanks in advance!
EDIT: Sorry for the ambiguous question. Basically, what I want to extract are coordinates of each bounding box for ALL US cities. For example: New York (12.123,34.345),(12.456,34.678),..etc Boston (11.111,22.222),(11.123,22.234),..etc ...etc (for all cities in the US)
I'm asking for this because I have a lot of coordinates that needs to be categorized (or reverse-geocoded) into cities, like (A,B) -> City A; (C,D) -> City B; etc. I can't use Google's geocoding feature because they only allow up to 5000ish requests per day per IP address, and I have millions of coordinates. I've tried installing OpenStreetMap data and running reverse-geocoding on my machine, but was turned off by the inaccuracy of results. Hopefully this made sense!