make command defaults to downloading counties

fitnr / get-tiger

Make workflow for downloading Census geodata and joining it to survey data

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make command defaults to downloading counties #1

Closed thomas-hervey closed 7 years ago

thomas-hervey commented 7 years ago

This seems like a great tool. Because of the (Seemingly fickle) nature of census API and FTP sites, I wasn't able to download anything. I kept getting 425 errors when curling. Also, it seems like make commands switch to 2015/COUNTY/cb_2015_us_county_20m.zip ftp://ftp2.census.gov/geo/tiger/GENZ2015/shp/cb_2015_us_county_20m.zip regardless of what is entered.

Perhaps I am doing something wrong? Thanks

fitnr commented 7 years ago

So there are two errors:

425 errors when curling
downloading the counties data

The counties data is useful for downloading certain files, but it also comes with the repo. I've fixed the reorganizing slightly.

I haven't seen 425 errors, so I'm going to chalk it up to a passing problem. The Census's servers aren't perfect, and they do error out. If you still experience the problem, please reopen the issue with the terminal commands and output.