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Date: Wed, 21 Mar 2001 17:02:55 -0500
From: Tsering Wangyal Shawa <[log in to unmask]>
Subject: Re: 2000 Census
Sender: Tsering Wangyal Shawa <[log in to unmask]>



The ESRI Censuswatch page provides only a boundary files and not actual
census data. If you are interested in getting the Census 2000 boundary or
geography files then the ESRI Censuswatch page is an excellent site because
data is already in a shapefile...you can  use it easily use with ArcView
and also you can convert it into MapInfo. MapInfo free provides conversion
utility from a shapefile to MIF file.

For actual census data...check the GeoLytics
site(http://www.censuscd.com/census2000.htm),  they are trying to make the
Census 2000 data accessible through their software as they are released,
with some annual subscription fee. The GeoLytics programs are one of the
easiest and cheapest programs for extracting census data.

Thanks.
-Wangyal
Tsering Wangyal Shawa
Geographic Information Systems Librarian
Digital Map and Geospatial Information Center
Geosciences and Map Library
Guyot Hall, Princeton University
Princeton, NJ 08544
Phone: (609) 258-6804
Fax: (609) 258-4607
www.princeton.edu/~geolib/gis

>
>Many of the TIGER files have already been processed into shapefiles by ESRI,
>downloadable free from their site at
>http://www.geographynetwork.com/data/tiger2000/. In fact they've established
>a Census clearinghouse at www.esri.com/censuswatch.
>

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