Hacking GeoSpatial Data

David Bitner is putting to gether a series of notes on setting up TIGER/VMAP data. The goal is to pull together datasets that will provided a US basemap down to street level.

The goal that I have for this wiki is to provide recipes to pull public data and to process it for efficient use at several different resolutions. In the case of roads, this would mean being able have a roads map that one could easily zoom from a national scale map and get more and more information (as well as more detailed information) as you zoom in to street level by filtering out data at different levels as well as generalizing datasets. I envision this being a place that can be used for any datasets that are publicly available, but not necessarily in a form that is immediately useful. The initial two that I have identified are TIGER and VMAP.

Thanks for participating!

David