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Availability of geometries from 2006-2009

Open LayanKaushik opened this issue 1 year ago • 2 comments

Hi, thank you for your fantastic R and Python packages. I noticed that the TIGER/Line Shapefiles are available from 2006 to the present, but tigris and pygris don't include the years from 2006 to 2009. I'm curious to know if there's a specific reason for this, or if it's in your development pipeline. I'd love to understand the reasoning behind it and am open to contributing if possible.

LayanKaushik avatar Sep 01 '23 01:09 LayanKaushik

Those shapefiles have a different URL structure than the shapefiles 2011 and later, so they'd take some custom development to support them given the current infrastructure of the packages. I'm happy to review a pull request if anyone would like them added!

walkerke avatar Sep 01 '23 16:09 walkerke

Thank you for this package. I'd like to request geometries for years 2008 to 2012

purrr::map(state_fips, tigris::pumas, class="sf", cb=TRUE, year=2012) %>% purrr::reduce(rbind)

Jadamso avatar Sep 24 '23 08:09 Jadamso