[NTLUG:Discuss] GPS Mapping Software

[Steve Baker]

Walter Johnston wrote:
> The 2004 TIGER files (2nd edition) were released on 18 Aug 2005.
>  Look for them through
> 
> http://www.census.gov/geo/www/tiger.html

Oooh!  Cool!

I'll take a look at them.

> BTW: The RT1 files will give you all the segments, but the RT6
> files provide addresses that are "unusual" - I suggest a good
> old RTFM even though the documentation is a bit tedious :-)

Interesting.  For what I wanted, I wasn't really interested in the
actual addresses - but if you wanted a completely indexed GPS map,
you'd probably want that too.

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