John Sample

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Census Down

As I'm writing this the census site is down, maybe we all crashed it.  ;-)

Obviously, you won't be able to use the installer until they get the site back up.

posted on Thursday, September 22, 2005 3:37 PM

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# re: Census Down

Where are you trying to go for the data? I've been going to http://www2.census.gov/geo/tiger/tiger2004se/TX/ and finding a bunch of data. Is this a bad place to get the data?
9/22/2005 11:06 PM | Kevin I

# re: Census Down

Yeah, thats the right place.
Unfortunately the installer uses a regex on the index page to gather locations.
Until they get the web server back up and running it won't be able to find those directories.
9/23/2005 7:45 AM | John Sample

# re: Census Down

Hi just starting to look at this now. Seems like it's probably still "down", but I'm assuming we could still step through the manual process that you outlined before you came up with the installer, right?

9/25/2005 4:24 PM | Rob Wuhrman

# re: Census Down

Looks like its up, you should be OK.
9/25/2005 5:23 PM | John Sample

# re: Census Down

Great tools.
Where is the beta 0.05?

The tiger Tiger Install.exe beta 0.01 failed to download. it said 404 remote connection error.

Thanks
10/23/2005 6:22 PM | John

# re: Census Down

Try this:
http://www.johnsample.com/misc/geo2/api/doc/index.html
10/24/2005 10:03 AM | John Sample

# re: Census Down

Still getting the 404's. Had a network trace going, and the directory the installer is going for is geo/www/tiger/tiger2004fe . Checked the site, and looks like the data may have been moved to geo/www/tiger/tiger2004se.

Is it possible to have the installer run against data that you've already downloaded?

Thanks
10/27/2005 4:53 PM | Bob Jacobsen

# re: Census Down

Bob,
You must be running the old installer. The first edition files have been taken down from the site.
Try the one linked from here:
http://www.johnsample.com/misc/geo2/api/doc/index.html
10/27/2005 7:05 PM | John Sample

# re: Census Down

The new Url for census is http://www2.census.gov/geo/tiger/tiger2005fe/. We can set this somewhere with the application because the installer return error 404 (Not Found) ?

Thanks
1/4/2006 11:06 AM | Flaviu Boldea

# 404 Errors with latest version

I have spent HOURS trying to find this type of data or free service that allows the access I need. This is absolutely incredible that someone (John) has been kind enough to go through the process for us and is willing to share all of it!!! THANK YOU JOHN!

With that said, I am unable to run the latest installer. I get 404 errors. Is there a way I can repoint the app to grab the files from their new location? I've not come across anything that points me in the right direction.

Thanks so much for your help John!!!
1/16/2006 8:33 PM | Shanon

# re: Census Down

Im also getting the 404 errors Shanon. Have you made any progress? I'm guesing John is busy with his new baby.
1/26/2006 8:59 AM | Brian

# re: Census Down

... Any chance someone can help with an updated version with the new census url? --Please?
3/23/2006 1:03 PM | JustJohnny

# re: Census Down

I had some problems with the 404 on install. I haven't finished retrieving the data yet, but I used wget and created a batch file to get the data.


wget.exe -r ftp://www2.census.gov/geo/tiger/tiger2005fe/AK/
wget.exe -r ftp://www2.census.gov/geo/tiger/tiger2005fe/AL/
wget.exe -r ftp://www2.census.gov/geo/tiger/tiger2005fe/AR/
wget.exe -r ftp://www2.census.gov/geo/tiger/tiger2005fe/AS/
wget.exe -r ftp://www2.census.gov/geo/tiger/tiger2005fe/AZ/
wget.exe -r ftp://www2.census.gov/geo/tiger/tiger2005fe/CA/
wget.exe -r ftp://www2.census.gov/geo/tiger/tiger2005fe/CO/
wget.exe -r ftp://www2.census.gov/geo/tiger/tiger2005fe/CT/
wget.exe -r ftp://www2.census.gov/geo/tiger/tiger2005fe/DC/
wget.exe -r ftp://www2.census.gov/geo/tiger/tiger2005fe/DE/
wget.exe -r ftp://www2.census.gov/geo/tiger/tiger2005fe/FL/
wget.exe -r ftp://www2.census.gov/geo/tiger/tiger2005fe/GA/
wget.exe -r ftp://www2.census.gov/geo/tiger/tiger2005fe/GU/
wget.exe -r ftp://www2.census.gov/geo/tiger/tiger2005fe/HI/
wget.exe -r ftp://www2.census.gov/geo/tiger/tiger2005fe/IA/
wget.exe -r ftp://www2.census.gov/geo/tiger/tiger2005fe/ID/
wget.exe -r ftp://www2.census.gov/geo/tiger/tiger2005fe/IL/
wget.exe -r ftp://www2.census.gov/geo/tiger/tiger2005fe/IN/
wget.exe -r ftp://www2.census.gov/geo/tiger/tiger2005fe/KS/
wget.exe -r ftp://www2.census.gov/geo/tiger/tiger2005fe/KY/
wget.exe -r ftp://www2.census.gov/geo/tiger/tiger2005fe/LA/
wget.exe -r ftp://www2.census.gov/geo/tiger/tiger2005fe/MA/
wget.exe -r ftp://www2.census.gov/geo/tiger/tiger2005fe/MD/
wget.exe -r ftp://www2.census.gov/geo/tiger/tiger2005fe/ME/
wget.exe -r ftp://www2.census.gov/geo/tiger/tiger2005fe/MI/
wget.exe -r ftp://www2.census.gov/geo/tiger/tiger2005fe/MN/
wget.exe -r ftp://www2.census.gov/geo/tiger/tiger2005fe/MO/
wget.exe -r ftp://www2.census.gov/geo/tiger/tiger2005fe/MP/
wget.exe -r ftp://www2.census.gov/geo/tiger/tiger2005fe/MS/
wget.exe -r ftp://www2.census.gov/geo/tiger/tiger2005fe/MT/
wget.exe -r ftp://www2.census.gov/geo/tiger/tiger2005fe/NC/
wget.exe -r ftp://www2.census.gov/geo/tiger/tiger2005fe/ND/
wget.exe -r ftp://www2.census.gov/geo/tiger/tiger2005fe/NE/
wget.exe -r ftp://www2.census.gov/geo/tiger/tiger2005fe/NH/
wget.exe -r ftp://www2.census.gov/geo/tiger/tiger2005fe/NJ/
wget.exe -r ftp://www2.census.gov/geo/tiger/tiger2005fe/NM/
wget.exe -r ftp://www2.census.gov/geo/tiger/tiger2005fe/NV/
wget.exe -r ftp://www2.census.gov/geo/tiger/tiger2005fe/NY/
wget.exe -r ftp://www2.census.gov/geo/tiger/tiger2005fe/OH/
wget.exe -r ftp://www2.census.gov/geo/tiger/tiger2005fe/OK/
wget.exe -r ftp://www2.census.gov/geo/tiger/tiger2005fe/OR/
wget.exe -r ftp://www2.census.gov/geo/tiger/tiger2005fe/PA/
wget.exe -r ftp://www2.census.gov/geo/tiger/tiger2005fe/PR/
wget.exe -r ftp://www2.census.gov/geo/tiger/tiger2005fe/RI/
wget.exe -r ftp://www2.census.gov/geo/tiger/tiger2005fe/SC/
wget.exe -r ftp://www2.census.gov/geo/tiger/tiger2005fe/SD/
wget.exe -r ftp://www2.census.gov/geo/tiger/tiger2005fe/TN/
wget.exe -r ftp://www2.census.gov/geo/tiger/tiger2005fe/TX/
wget.exe -r ftp://www2.census.gov/geo/tiger/tiger2005fe/UT/
wget.exe -r ftp://www2.census.gov/geo/tiger/tiger2005fe/VA/
wget.exe -r ftp://www2.census.gov/geo/tiger/tiger2005fe/VI/
wget.exe -r ftp://www2.census.gov/geo/tiger/tiger2005fe/VT/
wget.exe -r ftp://www2.census.gov/geo/tiger/tiger2005fe/WA/
wget.exe -r ftp://www2.census.gov/geo/tiger/tiger2005fe/WI/
wget.exe -r ftp://www2.census.gov/geo/tiger/tiger2005fe/WV/
wget.exe -r ftp://www2.census.gov/geo/tiger/tiger2005fe/WY/

4/21/2006 3:48 PM | Jim C

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