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Generate US States TopoJSON from the 2013 Census shape file
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| # Kind of fork from https://github.com/jgoodall/us-maps | |
| # | |
| # Access http://www.census.gov/cgi-bin/geo/shapefiles2013/main | |
| # Choose 'States (and equivalent)' and 'Submit' | |
| mkdir tl_2013_us_state | |
| cd tl_2013_us_state | |
| mkdir topojson geojson | |
| unzip ../tl_2013_us_state.zip | |
| ogr2ogr -f "GeoJSON" geojson/state.json tl_2013_us_state.shp tl_2013_us_state | |
| topojson --id-property STUSPS --out topojson/state.json geojson/state.json | |
| topojson -s 3 --out topojson/state-s3.json topojson/state.json # 70k |
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