US Metropolitan atlas 2014

Provides an Atlas of the US core based statistical areas (CBSAs) delineated for the 2014 American Community Survey: shapefiles with blockgroups, tracts or counties for each CBSA.

Inspired by Mike Bostock's us-atlas, much needed in my research.

Features available

Data tabulation geographical levels for the 2014 US Census:

• Census Block Groups boundaries (blockgroups)
• Census Tracts boundaries (tracts)
• Counties boundaries (countries)

Use

First clone the repository (chances are if you arrived here you know how to do that). In the commande line, go in the folder where you cloned the repository, and type

pip install -r requirements.txt

to install the python dependencies. Once that is done, you can simply type

make *geography*

to get the specified geography shapefiles (counties, tracts, blockgroups). The program will download the necessary data, and the shapefiles will be available in the folder data/shp/cbsa_id.

To get other geographies, type the name of other geographies in parenthesis above instead of 'blockgroups'. If you type make alone, the program will download and prepare all geographies.

CBSA Ids can be obtained by searching in the file data/misc/cbsa_names.txt.

License

The code is distributed under the BSD License, see the LICENSE file for more details.

Copyright (c) Scities
Rémi Louf <remi@sciti.es>