TO CTPP-News listserv recipients Census data users may be interested in knowing the Census Bureau's tentative schedule for releasing PL 94-171 for the next couple of weeks. Users may want to bookmark the following page as a fairly quick gateway for obtaining redistricting (PL 94-171) data files: http://www.census.gov/clo/www/redistricting.html In particular, users may want to bookmark the FTP site where the raw data files can be downloaded: http://ftp2.census.gov/census_2000/datasets/ "Power users" who may be using SAS to process the files should note that the State Data Center network is sharing SAS input code on their site at: http://www.sdcbidc.iupui.edu/ In terms of TIGER files, all TIGER/Line Redistricting 2000 files are available (except Puerto Rico) at: http://www.census.gov/geo/www/tiger/rd_2ktiger/tgr2kweb.html ESRI has converted all TIGER files into their proprietary "shape" file format, and are offering all converted TIGER files for free at: http://www.geographynetwork.com/data/tiger2000/ And lastly, UC Berkeley has some TIGER 2000 map layers available for California in three different formats (ArcView, Maptitude and MapInfo) available in two geographic projections (NAD 1927 and NAD 1983). A very nice arrangement for providing data files to external users: http://swdb.berkeley.edu/geography.html cheers, Chuck Purvis, MTC ********************************************************** Data Tentatively Scheduled for Release Week of March 5* Arkansas Indiana Louisiana Mississippi New Jersey Pennsylvania South Dakota Texas Vermont Virginia Wisconsin Data Tentatively Scheduled for Release Week of March 12* Alabama Alaska Delaware Hawaii Illinois Kansas Missouri Nebraska Nevada New York Ohio Oklahoma *The release dates are subject to change due to uncertainties in processing. This means that states tentatively scheduled for release may be delayed and states not listed could be released without notice. ************************************************************* ******************************************************* e-mail: cpurvis(a)mtc.ca.gov Chuck Purvis, AICP Senior Transportation Planner/Analyst, Planning Section Metropolitan Transportation Commission 101 Eighth Street, Oakland, CA 94607-4700 (510) 464-7731 (voice) (510) 464-7848 (fax) WWW: http://www.mtc.ca.gov/ MTC DataMart: http://www.mtc.ca.gov/datamart/ MTC FTP Site: ftp://ftp.abag.ca.gov/pub/mtc/planning/ *******************************************************