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carloslaso / download-census-shp.sh
Created May 17, 2016 04:13 — forked from diegovalle/download-census-shp.sh
Download shapefiles at the census tract and block level for all of urban Mexico—more than 5 GB of data!
#! /bin/bash
# Author: Diego Valle-Jones
# Web: http://www.diegovalle.net
# Purpose: Download shapefiles of manzanas (blocks), agebs (census areas), ejes
# viales (streets), interesting areas and a whole bunch of other stuff
# Note that you'll need a recent version of innoextract
# http://constexpr.org/innoextract/, one that can work with files
# created by version 5.5 of Inno Setup, the one in Ubuntu universe is
# not recent enough. The version available at