{"id":805,"date":"2024-10-06T13:24:02","date_gmt":"2024-10-06T17:24:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/brian.digitalmaddox.com\/blog\/?p=805"},"modified":"2024-10-06T13:24:02","modified_gmt":"2024-10-06T17:24:02","slug":"saying-goodbye-to-my-census-tiger-data","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brian.digitalmaddox.com\/blog\/?p=805","title":{"rendered":"Saying Goodbye to my Census Tiger Data"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>For a long time now I&#8217;ve maintained a version of the Public Domain Census <a href=\"https:\/\/www.census.gov\/geographies\/mapping-files\/time-series\/geo\/tiger-line-file.html\">Tiger Data<\/a> converted from county-level to state-level.\u00a0 Over the years I&#8217;ve actually had a lot of those shape files downloaded so I&#8217;m glad they were useful to some people!<\/p>\n<p>However, the Census is now putting out <a href=\"https:\/\/www.census.gov\/geographies\/mapping-files\/time-series\/geo\/tiger-geopackage-file.html\">geopackages<\/a> of there data at both the national and state levels.\u00a0 I&#8217;d also like to thank the US Census for doing that as I think state-level data is way more usable than county level!<\/p>\n<p>As a result, I think there&#8217;s not really a reason for me to host the state-level data any more.\u00a0 I&#8217;ll still host the script to download and create a PostgreSQL\/PostGIS database at my github <a href=\"https:\/\/github.com\/briangmaddox\/misc_gis_scripts\">repo<\/a>, and might even get around to adding scripts to automatically process the geopackages.<\/p>\n<p>So, so long my state-level Census data and thanks for all the fish!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>For a long time now I&#8217;ve maintained a version of the Public Domain Census Tiger Data converted from county-level to state-level.\u00a0 Over the years I&#8217;ve actually had a lot of those shape files downloaded so I&#8217;m glad they were useful &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/brian.digitalmaddox.com\/blog\/?p=805\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":806,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-805","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/brian.digitalmaddox.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/805","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/brian.digitalmaddox.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/brian.digitalmaddox.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brian.digitalmaddox.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brian.digitalmaddox.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=805"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/brian.digitalmaddox.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/805\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":807,"href":"https:\/\/brian.digitalmaddox.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/805\/revisions\/807"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brian.digitalmaddox.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/806"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/brian.digitalmaddox.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=805"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brian.digitalmaddox.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=805"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brian.digitalmaddox.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=805"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}