TIGER/Line

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The TIGER/Line files were created from the US Census Bureau's TIGER (Topologically Integrated Geographic Encoding and Referencing) database of selected geographic and cartographic information, such as roads, railroads, rivers, lakes, political boundaries, census statistical boundaries, etc. covering the entire United States. The data base contains information about these features such as their location in latitude and longitude, the name, the type of feature, address ranges for most streets, the geographic relationship to other features, and other related information.

TIGER was developed at the Census Bureau to support the mapping and related geographic activities required by the decennial and economic censuses and sample survey programs. TIGER/Line files are made available to the public and are typically used by people to provide the digital map base for their Geographic Information System or mapping software.

Weblinks

• http://www.census.gov/geo/www/tiger/tigerua/ua_tgr2k.html - US Census 2000 TIGER/Line
• http://sunsite.berkeley.edu/GovData/info/tiger.html - TIGER/Line 1997
• U.S. Census Bureau TIGER web page

Example

The following is an example of a map generated using TIGER/Line data using the Global Mapper application.