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QGIS - Change unit of measure from degrees to meters
I am running QGIS 1.7.0 on windows, and I donwloaded a shapefile of census block group boundaries from TIGER. This file appears to be in the WGS 84 coordinate system, and when I open it in QGIS the ...
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Geocode quality: Nominatim vs. PostGIS Geocoder vs. Geocoder::US 2.0
I occasionally need to geocode >> 500,000 US street addresses (no features or intersections). I'd like to set up a geocoding service locally to handle these bulk geocodes.
I've used the Tiger-based ...
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2010 Census Tiger County shp file with defined coastal land area
I am looking for a 2010 Census Tiger Shape file that hugs the coastline and doesn't include the ocean in county boundaries. I have a pre 2010 file that did this and I can't seem to find a 2010 ...
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US Tiger or Open Street Map Route Data: One Way Street & Intersection Data
We're building a U.S. street routing application (finding paths for cars between two or more locations using public roads) and would like to use open source data US Tiger Data or Open Street Map or ...
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What is a best practice way to display/feed US census/tiger data into Google Maps API?
Let's say I want to display age, income, etc based on census block groups on Google maps.
What is the best practice or recommended way to do so and also to allow to do simple queries?
