TIGER/Line files
See Also: TIGER
[data storage] A digital database of geographic features, covering the entire United States and its territories, that provides a topological description of the geographic structure of these areas.
TIGER
TIGER format was first distributed by the US. Census Bureau in 1990. It includes block level maps of every village, town, and city in the United States. It includes geocoded block faces with address ranges of street numbers.
TIGER File Data and Census Attribute Data Sets
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TIGER files
PostGIS maps (area example)
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TIGER files : Topologically Integrated Geographic Encoding and Referencing files compiled and distributed by the U.S. Census Bureau.
TIGER: Acronym for Topologically Integrated Geographic Encoding and Referencing database standard developed by the U.S. Bureau of the Census to support the 1990 census. Introduces political boundaries, feature names, and ZIP Code boundaries.
TIGER (Topologically Integrated Geographic Encoding and Referencing system) refers to the system and data format the U.S. Census Bureau uses to display geography.
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TIGER is an acronym for topologically integrated geographic encoding and referencing file. This is a type of digital map developed by the U.S. Bureau of the Census to support the 1990 population census.
TIGER
The Topologically Integrated Geographic Encoding and Referencing data format used by the U.S. Census Bureau to support census programs and surveys. It was used for the 1990 census.
TIGER - Supersedes DIME files.
TIGER - See Topologically Integrated Geographic Encoding and Referencing.
Topographic Map - A map of land-source features including drainage lines, roads, landmarks, and usually relief, or elevation.
TIGER: Topologically Integrated Geographic Encoding and Referencing File. This is a type of digital map developed by the U.S. Bureau of the Census to support the 1990 population census.
TIGER redirects here. For other uses see Tiger (disambiguation).
An example of a map generated using TIGER/Line data using the Global Mapper application.
TIGER/Line files are extracted from the Census TIGER data base when needed for geographic programs required to support the census and survey programs of the Census Bureau.
TIGER files were created by the Bureau of the Census with the assistance of the US Geological Survey
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TIGER/line files are organized by county ...
TIGER/Line files
A digital database of geographic features, covering the entire United States and its territories, that provides a topological description of the geographic structure of these areas. The files are a public product created from the U.S.
TIGER Geographic Reference File Names, 1990
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TIGER (Topologically Integrated Geographic Encoding and Referencing) - A standard digital geographic data format currently used by the US Bureau of the Census for street level mapping of the United States. See also GBF.
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The TIGER 1-Cell Source Code (SOURCEID) in Record Type M identifies the source for each line segment and provides the link between the TIGER/Line files and the source and horizontal spatial accuracy information in the county based metadata.
The TIGER concept targets both new and existing security applications with features that range from a security scheme that grants permission to access and manipulate information based on the physical location; geoencryption based on location and time, ...
ArcInfo supports data conversion from many geographic data formats such as DLG, TIGER, DXF, and DEM. data dictionary A catalog of all data held in a database, or a list of items giving data names and structures.
Topologically Integrated Geographic Encoding and Referencing, or TIGER, or TIGER/Line is a format used by the United States Census Bureau to describe land attributes such as roads, buildings, rivers, and lakes. ...
USGS Digital Elevation Model (DEM) data; (iii) Publicly-owned or controlled lands; (iv) Wetlands, as identified from the National Wetlands Inventory; (v) 1990 City boundaries, obtained from 1992 TIGER files; (vi) 1990 Spheres-of-influence, ...
Census' TIGER data for your county. Select some features of interest, such as detailed roads, and add them to the view created in the preceding exercise.
Based on Esri's GIS technology, Esri Redistricting includes preprocessed Census 2000, 2010 TIGER, and Public Law (P.L) 94-171 data. In addition, you have access to ready to-use basemaps, such as streets, imagery, topographic, and demographic maps.
population, race and economic data, which you will download from the American FactFinder site.
Census TIGER/Line data, which you will download from the ESRI site, that provide "geographic coordinates" for mapping; ...
- vector: unstructured (spaghetti, primitive instancing, entity-by-entity), topological (TIGER, DIME)
- hybrid: vaster
- data structures for attribute data: flat file, inverted list, hierarchical, network, relational ...
Geocode - the process of identifying the coordinates of a location given its address. For example, an address can be matched against a TIGER street network to determine the location of a home. Also referred to as address geocoding.
Census Places These are effectively (in massachusetts) town boundaries, with summary demographic statistics for each town. Municipal Parks The census TIGER files includes various landmarks, including three classes of public parks.
The process of identifying a location by one or more x,y coordinates from another location description such as an address. For example, an address can be matched against a TIGER street network to determine the location of a home.
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Acronym for 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. See TIGER for details.
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Anyone looking for digital geographic information on streams, highways, Census TIGER files, municipal boundaries, water supply, watersheds, waste sites, or other geographic features can browse the NCGDC data listings through the M@IN Internet link.
acquired with programs that translate data to and from several "standard" formats which are accepted widely by the mapping industry and have been used as intermediate "exchange" formats for moving data between platforms (e.g., Intergraph SIF, TIGER, ...
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