Amazon is now hosting all United States TIGER Census data in its cloud.
This data set is a complete set of Census 2000 and Current shapefiles for American states, counties, subdivisions, districts, places, and areas. The data is available as shapefiles suitable for use in GIS, along with their associated metadata. The official source of this data is the US Census Bureau, Geography Division.
Brady Forrest, O’Reilly says “This means that you can now load all of this data directly onto one of Amazon�s virtual machines, use the power of the cloud to work with these large data sets, generate output that you can then save on Amazon�s storage, and even use Amazon�s cloud to distribute what you make.”
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