US TIGER 2019 data got released

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marc tobias 2019-08-23 14:59:03 +02:00
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@ -4,17 +4,17 @@ Convert [TIGER](https://www.census.gov/geo/maps-data/data/tiger.html)/Line datas
The dataset gets updated once per year. Downloading is prone to be slow (can take a full day) and converting them can take hours as well.
Replace '2018' with the current year throughout.
Replace '2019' with the current year throughout.
1. Install the GDAL library and python bindings and the unzip tool
# Ubuntu:
sudo apt-get install python3-gdal unzip
2. Get the TIGER 2018 data. You will need the EDGES files
2. Get the TIGER 2019 data. You will need the EDGES files
(3,233 zip files, 11GB total).
wget -r ftp://ftp2.census.gov/geo/tiger/TIGER2018/EDGES/
wget -r ftp://ftp2.census.gov/geo/tiger/TIGER2019/EDGES/
3. Convert the data into SQL statements. Adjust the file paths in the scripts as needed
@ -22,5 +22,5 @@ Replace '2018' with the current year throughout.
./convert.sh <input-path> <output-path>
4. Maybe: package the created files
tar -czf tiger2018-nominatim-preprocessed.tar.gz tiger
tar -czf tiger2019-nominatim-preprocessed.tar.gz tiger

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@ -188,12 +188,12 @@ address set to complement the OSM house number data in the US. You can add
TIGER data to your own Nominatim instance by following these steps. The
entire US adds about 10GB to your database.
1. Get preprocessed TIGER 2018 data and unpack it into the
1. Get preprocessed TIGER 2019 data and unpack it into the
data directory in your Nominatim sources:
cd Nominatim/data
wget https://nominatim.org/data/tiger2018-nominatim-preprocessed.tar.gz
tar xf tiger2018-nominatim-preprocessed.tar.gz
wget https://nominatim.org/data/tiger2019-nominatim-preprocessed.tar.gz
tar xf tiger2019-nominatim-preprocessed.tar.gz
`data-source/us-tiger/README.md` explains how the data got preprocessed.