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An automated approach to retrieving Census Tract shape-files for every state and inserting into a Postgres database
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#!/bin/bash | |
cd ~/Downloads | |
# Go through each state FIPs code and get their places SHP file | |
StateFIPS=( | |
"01" "02" "04" "05" "06" "08" "09" "10" | |
"11" "12" "13" "15" "16" "17" "18" "19" | |
"20" "21" "22" "23" "24" "25" "26" "27" | |
"28" "29" "30" "31" "32" "33" "34" "35" | |
"36" "37" "38" "39" "40" "41" "42" "44" | |
"45" "46" "47" "48" "49" "50" "51" "53" | |
"54" "55" "56" | |
) | |
counter=1 | |
for f in ${StateFIPS[@]} | |
do | |
curl https://www2.census.gov/geo/tiger/TIGER2019/TRACT/tl_2019_${f}_tract.zip --output tl_2019_${f}_tract.zip | |
mkdir tl_2019_${f}_tract | |
unzip tl_2019_${f}_tract.zip -d tl_2019_${f}_tract | |
if [ $counter == 1 ]; then | |
shp2pgsql -d -I tl_2019_${f}_tract/tl_2019_${f}_tract.shp tl_2019_tracts | psql -d gis_db | |
else | |
shp2pgsql -a tl_2019_${f}_tract/tl_2019_${f}_tract.shp tl_2019_tracts | psql -d gis_db | |
fi | |
cd ~/Downloads | |
rm tl_2019_${f}_tract.zip | |
rm -rf tl_2019_${f}_tract | |
counter=$((counter+1)) | |
done |
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