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/ downloadAndExtractCensusTract.sh
Created
October 11, 2011 17:05
download all the 2010 Census Tracts, extract from shapefiles to WKT
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| #requires ogr2ogr installed on local system | |
| states=( 01 02 04 05 06 08 09 10 11 12 13 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 31 32 33 34 35 36 37 38 39 40 41 42 44 45 46 47 48 49 50 51 53 54 55 56 ) | |
| for state in ${states[@]} | |
| do | |
| #grab the file from the census server, use curlies cuz the underscores mess us up | |
| curl http://www2.census.gov/geo/tiger/TIGER2010/TRACT/2010/tl_2010_${state}_tract10.zip > $state.zip | |
| done |
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