From kbyrnes@vdh.state.va.us Mon Jan 27 10:23:06 2003 Received: from mxu4.u.washington.edu (mxu4.u.washington.edu [140.142.33.8]) by lists.u.washington.edu (8.12.1+UW01.12/8.12.1+UW02.12) with ESMTP id h0RIN5CK011972 for ; Mon, 27 Jan 2003 10:23:05 -0800 Received: from vdhsrv20.vdh.state.va.us (vdhsrv20.vdh.state.va.us [169.134.169.20]) by mxu4.u.washington.edu (8.12.1+UW01.12/8.12.1+UW02.12) with ESMTP id h0RIN3M5021486 for ; Mon, 27 Jan 2003 10:23:03 -0800 Received: from [169.134.120.100] by vdhsrv20.vdh.state.va.us (NTMail 7.02.3037/NT1764.00.5148df18) with ESMTP id ekqrxbaa for waphgis@u.washington.edu; Mon, 27 Jan 2003 13:22:58 -0500 Received: from vdh.state.va.us ([10.51.107.42]) by vdhsrv1.vdh.state.va.us (iPlanet Messaging Server 5.2 HotFix 1.02 (built Sep 16 2002)) with ESMTP id <0H9D005CJXQARU@vdhsrv1.vdh.state.va.us> for waphgis@u.washington.edu; Mon, 27 Jan 2003 13:22:58 -0500 (EST) Date: Mon, 27 Jan 2003 13:22:09 -0500 From: Kevin Byrnes Subject: Re: 2002 TIGER-Line File Download Page To: waphgis@u.washington.edu Message-id: <3E3578D1.6030709@vdh.state.va.us> MIME-version: 1.0 Content-type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-transfer-encoding: 7BIT X-Accept-Language: en-us, en References: <5.1.0.14.2.20030127125231.030bb320@iris.caliper.com> Peter, Thanks for your prompt response. It's reassuring that Caliper's development team continues to keep its focus on updates beneficial to the MT user community. Kevin Byrnes Peter H. Van Demark wrote: > Kevin: > >> Does Maptitude 4.6 support the new 2002 TIGER line format? If not, >> might we assume this will be added in an early re-build of 4.6? I >> have found Maptitude very easy to use in updating geographic layers >> with new TIGER file releases. I hope your answer is an affirmative one. > > > Maptitude 4.6 does not support the new 2002 TIGER line format. We are > working on an importer and related capabilities for a future version > of Maptitude. This has a lower priority than other new capabilities > because, as your e-mail's copy of the Census web page notes, "The 2002 > TIGER/Line files contain very few updates to street features or > address ranges from the Census 2000 versions of the TIGER/Line files." > We will be ready for the future versions of TIGER/Line in this new > format that will have more updates. > > Peter > > ---------------------------------------------------------------- > Peter Van Demark > Director of GIS Products and Training Phone: 617-527-4700 > Caliper Corporation Fax: 617-527-5113 > 1172 Beacon Street E-mail: peter@caliper.com > Newton MA 02461-9926 Web site: http://www.caliper.com > .