[CTPP] TIGER 2000 update and ESRI sites

Hello census-transportation community! Just an update to the release status of the TIGER/line 2000 "redistricting" files. 36 of 52 states/districts have been released as of 2/2/01. States not yet available (as of 2/2/01, AM) are: California, Idaho, Michigan, Minnesota, New Hampshire, New Mexico, North Carolina, Oregon, Puerto Rico, Rhode Island, South Carolina, Tennessee, Utah, Washington, West Virginia, and Wyoming. Raw TIGER data is available from the Census Bureau web site at: http://www.census.gov/geo/www/tiger/rd_2ktiger/tgr2kweb.html ESRI, the commercial developed of ArcView and ArcInfo, has developed a web site for the free downloading of TIGER 2000 GIS files already converted to ArcView "shp" file format. You do have to register, but it really is free and it really does work. Highly recommended! The site is: http://www.geographynetwork.com/data/tiger2000/ Another new site maintained by ESRI is their "Census Watch" site, at: http://www.esri.com/industries/localgov/censuswatch/ I haven't fully explored this Census Watch site, but it bears monitoring. If there are any other web sites worth mentioning in converting TIGER/line to other commercial GIS packages, it might be useful to drop a line to this listserv. (Especially any kind of freeware or shareware useful in converting between GIS packages: ArcView shp files to MapInfo, to/from Caliper's products, etc.) One more web site worth mentioning is a Census 2000 web site for journalists established by Professor Stephen Doig of Arizona State University. "Reporting Census 2000: A Guide for Journalists" can also be a guide for the regional or city planner responsible for summarizing census data. Check it out at: http://cronkite.pp.asu.edu/census/index.htm That's about all for now. It looks like we will all have about a month to play around with our Census 2000 GIS files before PL 94-171 data starts coming about a month from now. cheers, Chuck Purvis, MTC