http://anoved.net/2008/09/american-factfinder-geo-within-geo/ Thu, 09 Feb 2012 23:45:36 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 http://anoved.net/2008/09/american-factfinder-geo-within-geo/#comment-63 Ian Wed, 24 Sep 2008 01:48:00 +0000 http://anoved.net/2008/09/american-factfinder-geo-within-geo/#comment-63 For users of census boundaries, road centerlines, and generic POI shapefiles in general, ESRI's StreetMaps Pro data set (which comes free with ArcView) is a good alternative to TIGER shapefiles. The contrast between TIGER roads and the Tele-Atlas streets in the StreetMaps data is substantial. An ArcView license is a steep price for some data, but if one already has a copy of the ESRI software, requesting a StreetMaps DVD delivers some added value.<br/>-Ian For users of census boundaries, road centerlines, and generic POI shapefiles in general, ESRI’s StreetMaps Pro data set (which comes free with ArcView) is a good alternative to TIGER shapefiles. The contrast between TIGER roads and the Tele-Atlas streets in the StreetMaps data is substantial. An ArcView license is a steep price for some data, but if one already has a copy of the ESRI software, requesting a StreetMaps DVD delivers some added value.
-Ian

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