Has anyone made any headway on this issue?
I tried FWTools and TGRtoSHP. I cannot get FWTools to properly translate the attribute data. TGRtoSHP works for TIGER data after 1994 (only tried 2000 108th data).
Neither can completely decode 1992 TIGER files, which I need for a land change modeling project.
Tiger Translator does not appear to be available any longer.
Also does anyone know where the 1994-2000 TIGER data is available for download? All of these tools refer to it but I have been unable to locate it.
I found a working solution for converting 1992 TIGER to ESRI Shapefile if anyone is interested.
I used OSGeo4W Shell to run ogr2ogr...
ogr2ogr -f "ESRI Shapefile" output folder TGR#####.F5I
FWTools: Open Source GIS/RS Binary Kit can also be used to run ogr2ogr. Like I mentioned earlier it created the 1992 TIGER lines but did not convert attribute fields.
TGR2SHP - Software Informer. TGR2SHP is a science conversion program that handles specific files. properly converted 1995, 2000 108th and 2006SE data (reportedly works for data from 1994 - 2006). The GUI is easy to use and allows you to select only the data you are interested in.