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0 | -71.0557505845646 | 42.35897920691 | 75 | State | St | Boston | MA | 02109
==Current Errors==
Currently, we are getting a 403 Forbidden Error when trying to download state data. We are in contact with the US Census Bureau. Their contact information can be found [https://www.census.gov/geo/about/contact.html here].
The email exchanges are recorded below.
I am a student researcher at the McNair Center for Entrepreneurship and Innovation at Rice University, and I am in the process of installing a Postgres Extension that relies on the TIGER data.
When I began installing the extension, things were working fine. Now however, I am getting a 403 Forbidden error when the script tries to download the TIGER files. Do you have any idea why this might be happening?
The extension I'm trying to install is below:
http://postgis.net/docs/postgis_installation.html#install_tiger_geocoder_extension
When I run any of the scripts that require data from TIGER, I am receiving the following error:
--2017-11-06 14:15:29-- http://www2.census.gov/geo/tiger/TIGER2016/FEATNAMES/tl_2016_06065_featnames.zip
Resolving www2.census.gov (www2.census.gov)... 104.84.241.90, 2600:1404:a:382::208c, 2600:1404:a:39c::208c
Connecting to www2.census.gov (www2.census.gov)|104.84.241.90|:80... connected.
HTTP request sent, awaiting response... 403 Forbidden
2017-11-06 14:15:29 ERROR 403: Forbidden.
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Thank you for reaching out to us. The postgis docs is not from the Geography Division, so I cannot comment on that. A couple things that come to mind.
We just released our new 2017 Shapefiles, so it's possible the scripts may be written for a previous version of our Shapefiles.
You may need to clean out your cookies, restart your browser, and then attempt to reinstall.
Were you able to download our Shapefiles successfully?
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The Shapefiles are part of the files being blocked by the 403 Forbidden error.
The script is using a wget protocol to bulk download the data, so there were no cookies involved. Also, the download had been working in previous days; it was only recently that the same scripts stopped working. I am worried that our IP address somehow ended up on a blacklist for the TIGER data. Is there a blacklist for addresses that access the TIGER data?
Our IP address is 128.42.44.181.
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I have forwarded your question on to our IT folks. Since I work on the subject matter side, I am unable to answer your questions. Once I hear back from them, I will forward their response to you. Hopefully they will provide to you what you need in order to download our Shapefiles. My apologies for your inconvenience.
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