Google Earth/Census Mashup
March 12, 2007
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gCensus is a great website - it spurred me to create a similar project in Ruby. I'm writing Ruby code to pull Census boundary & data files and parse them into KML files for Google Earth display (height adds a great dimensionality) and Google Maps. I'm posting my progress here: http://censuskml.blogspot.com/
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