Node Package to upload Census TIGER and Cartographic Shapefiles to a PostgreSQL / PostGIS database.
Relies on having the command line utility shp2pgsql already installed
If you don't have shp2pgsql (and are running Ubuntu):
wget --quiet -O - https://www.postgresql.org/media/keys/ACCC4CF8.asc | sudo apt-key add -
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get upgrade
Then:
sudo apt-get install postgis
Other packages may include shp2pgsql. However, I have found the above works if you're not interested in having PostgreSQL installed on your machine (ex: using remote DB).
Simple instructions:
TBD