All Points Blog
Our Opinion, Your Views of All Things Location

  • HOME

    About Us

    Advertising

    Contact Us

    Follow Us



    Feed  Twitter 

  • RECENT COMMENTS
  • NEWSLETTER

    All Points Blog

    Catching geospatial news that others miss. Delivered daily.

    Preview Newsletter | Archive

  • ARCHIVE
    << May 2009 >>
    S M T W T F S
              1 2
    3 4 5 6 7 8 9
    10 11 12 13 14 15 16
    17 18 19 20 21 22 23
    24 25 26 27 28 29 30
    31            
  • PUBLICATIONS

Tuesday, May 26, 2009

Census Shape files to KML (and more)

This from Bruce [corrected from Brian] Ralston, Professor and Associate Head of the Department of Geography at the University of Tennessee:

I have released a program called AFF Mapper. This is a Windows based package that was specifically designed for creating KML based mapping files from TIGER shapes and tables available from the Census Bureau’s American FactFinder web page. While it was designed for these files, it can be used to create KML files for other shapes (that are in decimal degrees with NAD83 or WGS 84) and external attribute files. The resulting KML files can be viewed in several free mapping packages such as Google Earth and ArcGIS Explorer.

To download a copy of the program and the user manual [visit this page].

This is freeware, copy till you drop.

Slashgeo reports source code will be available at a later date.

by Adena Schutzberg on 05/26 at 01:10 PM | Comments | Bookmark and Share

All Points Blog Newsletter

Catching geospatial news that others miss. Delivered daily.

Preview Newsletter | Archive

Follow

Feed  Twitter 

Recent Comments

Publications: Directions Magazine | Directions Magazine Francais | Directions Magazine Espanol
Conferences: Location Intelligence Conference | Rocket City Geospatial
© 2012 Directions Media. All Rights Reserved
194 Green Bay Road, Glencoe, IL 60022