Re: [HACKERS] OSS database needed for testing

Josh Berkus wrote:

>Jeff,
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>>Let me vote on the Tiger data.  I used to use this database.  It is public,
>>updated by the government, VERY useful in own right, it works well with the
>>earthdistance contribution, a real world database a lot of us use and I
>>think you can put together some killer scripts on it.
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>We'd have to use a subset of it.   30G is a little larger than anything we
>want people to download as  a test package.
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Actually, come to think of it, the TigerUA DB is in chunks. You can use
as much or as little as you want. I'll put the loader scripts on my
download page tonight.

Here is the home page for the data:
http://www.census.gov/geo/www/tiger/tigerua/ua_tgr2k.html