[CTPP] TransCAD Users

HELP NEEDED When I received our TIGER files and TAZ-Up program couple week ago, I started calling Election Data Services and Caliper Technical Support and was very disappointed with the state of GIS applications. We have our TAZs in Caliper's TransCAD GIS format and our zonal configurations are primarily aggregation of 1990 Census Block Groups. I have no problem in converting these TAZ boundaries to ArcView Shape files. In TransCAD, there is a "TAG' function to populate information from one layer to other layer based on spatial relationship. I understand that ArcView has a "SPATIAL JOIN' function doing similar job. I have tried the "TAG" function in one of our least populated county and the results were very messy assignments of TAZs to the TIGER tgrsscccp files. Well, there must be some pros out there who can point me to the right direction. I am resisting doing manually when I already have my TAZs described nicely in a reputable GIS package. I would welcome any suggestions and am willing to try new methods before I will assign summer interns to recreate 1012 zones for the CTPP. Thanks. Sweson Yang, AICP Chief Transportation Planner City of Indianapolis/Indianapolis MPO (317) 327-5137 FAX: (317) 327-5103 E-mail: syang(a)IndyGov.org