DIME File - A geographic base file produced by the U.S. Census Bureau with Dual Independent Map Encoding. Now being superseded by TIGER files.
DLG - See Digital Line Graph.
DOB - New York State Division of the Budget ...
DIME File: Dual Independent Map Encoding. A data format used by the U.S. Census Bureau to encode street network and related data for the 1980 Census. Superseded by TIGER. (See TIGER) ...
DIME Files
The U.S. Bureau of the Census created a spatial data set describing street networks, street addresses, political boundaries, and major hydrographic features for approximately 350 major cities and suburbs in the U.S.
DIME files provide a schematic map of a city's streets, address ranges, and geostatistical codes relating to the Census Bureau's tabular statistical data. DIME was replaced by TIGER for the 1990 Census.
This means than that they include topology and can address match. The maps are a combination of DLG and DBF/DIME files. They used the 1980 Census Bureau's maps along with the USGS's DLG maps, thus combining urban and nonurban areas.
 See also: Vector, TIGER, Address, Map, Geographic
  
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