CITYDECODER(1)

📦 version 1.4.2, in fedora 43, fedora 44

✨ citydecoder — the manual page (yes it's a man(1) situation bestie) ✨

okay so picture this: you're deep in the man(1) pages, you typed man citydecoder, and boom — here we are. let's get into it 💅

💖 NAME 💖

citydecoder — generate city/site data files for use with SPLAT from U.S. Census Bureau files of Incorporated Places/Census Designated Places 🏙️

🌸 SYNOPSIS 🌸

citydecoder file

🦋 DESCRIPTION 🦋

citydecoder is a utility that reads U.S. Census Bureau files of Incorporated Places/Census Designated Places, and generates city/site data files for use with SPLAT! software. no cap, that's the whole job. 🎀

the files you need for this utility are available for download free of charge (we love a freebie, periodt) from:

http://www.census.gov/geo/www/cob/bdy_files.html

please select the ARC/INFO Ungenerate (ASCII) Metadata Cartographic Boundary Files from this site and unzip them prior to importing them to citydecoder. like, do the unzipping first. it's giving "read the instructions and actually follow them" energy. 🔥

U.S. Census files are cataloged by the two digit FIPS code for the region (state) they represent. citydecoder takes as an argument the two-letter file prefix plus the FIPS code of the region or state being processed. so it's prefix + FIPS, together, as one arg. iykyk. 🌈

⭐ EXAMPLES ⭐

citydecoder pl34

🎀 FILES 🎀

  • /usr/bin/citydecoder

👑 SEE ALSO 👑

  • splat(1),

💀 BUGS 💀

No known bugs at this time. iconic behaviour honestly. ✨

🫶 AUTHOR 🫶

Sindre Pedersen Bjordal (foolish@guezz.net)

🧚 HISTORY 🧚

2007 — Text copyed from README

and that's the whole page bestie, you ate 🍓

version 1.0, dated 09 December 2007 — thanks for coming to my man(1) ted talk, mwah 💜

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