Geo::TigerLine(3p)

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 something 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@pobox.com>.

Currently maintained by Schuyler Erle <schuyler@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 realizing 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.