OT - load a shp file

From: John Fabiani <johnf(at)jfcomputer(dot)com>
To: pgsql-sql(at)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: OT - load a shp file
Date: 2010-12-01 06:06:58
Message-ID: 201011302206.58515.johnf@jfcomputer.com
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Hi,
How do I load a Census shp file into an exist database? I believe I have
postGIS install and now I want to load the US counties shp file.

the following does not appear to work
shp2pgsql -s 4269 -I -W latin1 tl_2008_us_county.shp 2008_us_county | psql

Plus I don't know what it does!

Johnf

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