geocommons/geocoder — Issue #29: TigerLine 2011?
Author: jjeffus
Created: 2012-01-16 22:47:51+00:00
State: open

Hi!

I was merrily going about generating the geocoder.db file and I happened to download Tiger/Line 2011:

ftp://ftp2.census.gov/geo/tiger/TIGER2011/

It built successfully and I was able to install the gem. I went on to try to generate the data file as the README says and:

development:jjeffus@~/dev/geocoder[master]: build/tiger_import ~/geocoder.db /Volumes/Blimpy/TigerLine/
ls: /Volumes/Blimpy/TigerLine//*/*/tl_*_edges.zip: No such file or directory

Seeing a tiger2009_import I figured maybe things had changed and the readme hadn't been updated. So:

development:jjeffus@~/dev/geocoder[master]: build/tiger_import ~/geocoder.db /Volumes/Blimpy/TigerLine/
ls: /Volumes/Blimpy/TigerLine//[0-9]*: No such file or directory

I'm guessing that the directory structure has changed again? The script definitely is expecting a very different structure. I'm poking around trying to figure out how to change the script. But obviously someone has had this problem before. So maybe it's a futile cause? Has it changed so significantly that it would require a complete rewrite?