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Import Cenus block groups by state and convert to GeoJSON
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bg_states_geojson.sh
wget -rc ftp://ftp2.census.gov/geo/tiger/TIGER2013/BG/
mkdir zips
mv ftp2.census.gov/geo/tiger/TIGER2013/BG/*.zip zips
rm -rf ftp2.census.gov
cd zips
for f in $( ls *.zip )
do
echo $f
unzip $f;
done
for f in $( ls *.shp )
do
echo $f
# Convert to GeoJSON
ogr2ogr -t_srs "EPSG:4326" -f "GeoJSON" ${f%.*}.geojson ${f%.*}.shp
done
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