TIGER Shape File Data

Where is it?

I am currently looking at (http://www.census.gov/geo/www/tiger/
tgrshp.html) and I don't see it.

Also, I'd like to process the data (yes all 24GB of it) using C++.
Any sugguestion?

TIA,

-Le Chaud Lapin-

Not released yet. Only the record layout.


You can use shapelib unless you want to write your own reader.

Hmm...I've been thinking about it. I'm going to read (http://
www.census.gov/geo/www/tiger/tgrshprl.pdf) to see how different
shapefile specification is from old TIGER Line specification. I did
write a program in C++ to process all TIGER Line data, but there was a
serious issue with that data which I still need help with:

Given two street addresses, I need to know if they identify homes in
the same census block. Determining this using TIGER Line data was not
straightforward for the inexperienced (me), and so I'm hoping that the
new ShapeFile format will help. Is this true?

What's the best way of determining somewhat reliably if two addresses
fall on same census blok?

-Le Chaud Lapin-