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Date: Wed, 21 Mar 2001 15:43:20 -0600 (CST)
From: Christopher Winters <[log in to unmask]>
Subject: Re: 2000 Census
Sender: Christopher Winters <[log in to unmask]>



For what it's worth, at the University of Chicago Map Collection,
we've downloaded Chicago area boundary files from the ESRI Web site
and census "redistricting" data from the U.S. Census site, joined them
together so that local users can quickly generate maps, and stuck a couple
of sample maps up on our Web site (http://www.lib.uchicago.edu/e/su/
maps/chi2000.html). I hope to have a file with 1990/2000 census tract
correspondences ready by this weekend in order to make maps showing
intercensal changes.

This process, as many of you have surely discovered, turns out not be
altogether straightforward. The Census site is _slow_; it's a real pain to
download files for areas with complicated geographies. And creating a
field to join on takes a bit of fiddling ("Tract 101, Cook County,
Illinois" [approximately] has to become "17031010100," for example),
but this is perfectly doable with Excel in about a dozen steps!

I'd be grateful to hear if anyone has approached things differently.

Chris Winters
University of Chicago Library
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> From: Patrick McGlamery <[log in to unmask]>
> Date: Wed, 21 Mar 2001 13:40:41 -0500
>
> Hello;
>
> It strikes me that has been almost a decade since the ARL GIS Project began.
>
> What are folks doing about mapping the 2000 Census?  Has anyone processed
> the TIGER files for their state?  Has anyone joined the PL 171 data?
>
> Thanks in advance,
>
> Patrick McGlamery
> UConn MAGIC
>

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