Geo::TigerLine

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NAME
       Geo::TigerLine - TIGER/Line geographic data

DESCRIPTION
       This is a module around the TIGER/Line geographic data generated by the
       U.S. Census.  TIGER/Line data files contain detailed information about
       roads, waterways, political and property boundaries, street addresses,
       etc...  Almost (but not quite) everything you need to recreate some-
       thing like Mapquest.

       Geo::TigerLine has been updated to reflect the structure of the 2003
       TIGER/Line data sets. If you want to use older datasets, consider
       regenerating the TIGER/Line data set parsers with the mk_parsers script
       distributed with this module.

AUTHORS
       Originally written by Michael G Schwern <schwern AT pobox.com>.

       Currently maintained by Schuyler Erle <schuyler AT nocat.net>.

LICENSE
       Same as perl.

COPYRIGHT
       Copyright (c) 2000 Michael G Schwern

       TIGER and TIGER/Line are registered trademarks of the US Census Bureau.

BUGS, CAVEATS and Other Musings
       Seeing as how TIGER is trademarked, we might want to call this module
       something else.

ALL PRAISE TO
       Bruce Perens, for putting the Census Bureau in the position of realiz-
       ing that they would be better off distributing this data themselves,
       for free, over the web. Ain't America grand? ;-)

SEE ALSO
       TIGER/Line data, manuals and additional info can be had from
       http://www.census.gov/geo/www/tiger/. The TIGER/Line data itself is
       probably most easily downloaded from http://www2.census.gov/geo/tiger/.

       See <Geo::Coder::US(3pm)>, a Perl module for mapping US street address
       to geographic coordinates, for one practical application based on
       Geo::TigerLine.

ALSO, SEE ALSO
       Geo::TigerLine::Record::1(3pm)

       Geo::TigerLine::Record::2(3pm)

       Geo::TigerLine::Record::4(3pm)

       Geo::TigerLine::Record::5(3pm)

       Geo::TigerLine::Record::6(3pm)

       Geo::TigerLine::Record::7(3pm)

       Geo::TigerLine::Record::8(3pm)

       Geo::TigerLine::Record::A(3pm)

       Geo::TigerLine::Record::B(3pm)

       Geo::TigerLine::Record::C(3pm)

       Geo::TigerLine::Record::E(3pm)

       Geo::TigerLine::Record::H(3pm)

       Geo::TigerLine::Record::I(3pm)

       Geo::TigerLine::Record::P(3pm)

       Geo::TigerLine::Record::R(3pm)

       Geo::TigerLine::Record::S(3pm)

       Geo::TigerLine::Record::T(3pm)

       Geo::TigerLine::Record::U(3pm)

       Geo::TigerLine::Record::Z(3pm)

       Geo::Coder::US(3pm)

       The mk_parsers script distributed with this module.



perl v5.8.7                       2004-05-11               Geo::TigerLine(3pm)