Plot ZipCode Boundaries on a Map: Part 2 - Import Zip Code (U.S. Censu

Thu, 26 Jun 2008 06:55:39 GMT

Now that we've Made Sense of the U.S. Census ZCTA ARC/INFO Ungenerate (ASCII) files in Part 1 of this series, we are ready to import the U.S Census ZCTA Zip Code data into a database. In Part 2, we'll create database tables and import the Zip Code Boundary data into those tables in a MS SQL 2005 database.

Plot ZipCode Boundaries on Map: Part1 - Make sense of U.S. Census Data

Sat, 21 Jun 2008 05:38:31 GMT

The data I'll focus on here is the Census 2000 5-Digit ZIP Code Tabulation Areas (ZCTAs) in ARC/INFO Ungenerate (ASCII) format. Even though these files are in their own "special" format, described here, they are still just plain ASCII and easily converted into CSV files to be imported into a database. Well, you could look at the ARC/INFO Generate (ASCII) Metadata Cartographic Boundary File Format definition and write a parser that then saves in in a CSV format. Or, you could just download and use the one I wrote for this article.

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Plot ZipCode Boundaries on a Map: Part 2 - Import Zip Code (U.S. Censu

Plot ZipCode Boundaries on Map: Part1 - Make sense of U.S. Census Data