Citation: Department of Commerce, U.S. Census Bureau, Geography Division, Spatial Data Collection and Products Branch (2019). 2019 Florida Census Tracts [gis dataset]. Department of Commerce. https://www.census.gov/geographies/mapping-files/time-series/geo/tiger-line-file.html. last updated: 2023-03-17 (update frequency: Never). Abstract: The Census Tracts data provides a stable set of geographic units for the presentation of census data and comparison back to previous decennial censuses. Key words: Florida, Census, 2019, Tract, Census Tract, Geography Open Geospatial Consortium Standards: dynamic vector tiles | | WMS (coming soon) | WFS (coming soon) ETL documentation

ETL for fl_2019_tl_tract

######### # GDSC ETL is performed in two steps: shell script to ETL data into postgres # and then additional transformations with SQL in postGIS (if needed). #### ######### # Step 1 - bash script (pseudo code) #### # create directory structure and move into it mkdir -p /data/fl_2019_tl_tract/{download,etl} && cd /data/fl_2019_tl_tract # set update flag based on last update and update frequency do_update=0 if date() < last_update + update_frequency else do_update = 1 # download if update flag is set: if do_update == 1 then wget -O download/fl_2019_tl_tract.zip 'ftp://ftp2.census.gov/geo/tiger/TIGER2019/TRACT/tl_2019_12_tract.zip' # unzip to download directory if update flag is set if do_update == 1 then unzip -d download download/fl_2019_tl_tract.zip && rm download/fl_2019_tl_tract.zip # load into postGIS with: ogr2ogr -lco GEOMETRY_NAME=geom -f PostgreSQL PG:"" download/tl_2019_12_tract.shp -nlt multipolygon -nln fl_2019_tl_tract ######### # Step 2 - SQL script (pseudo code): #### # remove duplicate points and make geometries valid: UPDATE fl_2019_tl_tract SET geom=ST_MakeValid(ST_RemoveRepeatedPoints(geom)); # add local geometry column and reproject existing geometries into local EPSG: SELECT AddGeometryColumn ( 'fl_2019_tl_tract', 'geom_local', 2236, 'multipolygon', 2 ); UPDATE fl_2019_tl_tract SET geom_local=ST_MakeValid(ST_RemoveRepeatedPoints(ST_Transform(ST_Multi(geom), 2236))); CREATE INDEX fl_2019_tl_tract_geom_local_idx ON fl_2019_tl_tract USING GIST (geom_local); NOTIFY pgrst, 'reload schema';