places for census API prior to 2010
mdcruztx opened this issue · comments
Hello-- I'm trying to pull ACS 2009 1-year data from the Census for the city of El Paso in Texas. When I attempt to retrieve that data, I get the following error: Error : places is not currently available for years prior to 2011. To request this feature,
file an issue at https://github.com/walkerke/tigris.
Do you have any suggestions?
Hi @mdcruztx! You'll be able to get the data from tidycensus with geometry = FALSE. If you need 2009 place geometries - right now tigris doesn't support them because the URL structure for that year isn't consistent with later years and would need some custom configuration. The TIGER/Line file and the CB file https://www2.census.gov/geo/tiger/PREVGENZ/pl/pl00shp/pl48_d00_shp.zip would likely work but I'd need to test it. You could use 2000 place geometries from https://www2.census.gov/geo/tiger/TIGER2010/PLACE/2000/tl_2010_48_place00.zip, download, unzip, and join to your tidycensus data.
I probably don't have time to support this in the immediate near term but I could put it on the roadmap. I'd also welcome pull requests from users who need it.
I'm not familiar with pull requests yet but would also appreciate congressional district shapefiles from 2010. Just letting you know there is other interest here. I'm just learning GIS/mapping in R so I appreciate these tools!