[Roadster] Compilation successful - what next?

[Ian McIntosh]

Hi,

In short, get files here[1] (scroll to the bottom) and then select the
whole bunch when doing an import.  Then do a search or two until it
matches a road. :)

[1] http://www.census.gov/geo/www/tiger/tiger2004fe/tgr2004fe.html

Be warned: It takes a very long time.  Unless you want to actually use
Roadster while out in a car or something, I suggest you only import one
or two zip files at first.

For the near future, JCole and I have talked about a) pre-parsing the
tiger zip files and distributing the geography database pre-generated
and b) changing to a much more compact data format, to speed up access
time and also reduce size (substantially).

-Ian

> Is there a link from which I can download tiger.zip data that can be
> easily imported into roadster? I've looked at tiger website but it's
> plenty confusing and it seems that tiger data is split into many
> different files.
> 
> In short: where can I find data for roadster and how can I import them
> into roadster?
> 
> Thanks,
> 
> Krzysztof Kowalczyk | http://blog.kowalczyk.info
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