What types of data are available in the TIGER Line files?
The TIGER/Line shapefile data includes complete coverage of the contiguous United States, Alaska, Hawaii, Puerto Rico, the U.S. Virgin Islands, American Samoa, Guam, the Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands, and the Midway Islands.
What is a Tiger Line?
TIGER Geodatabases are spatial extracts from the Census Bureau’s MAF/TIGER database for use with geographic information systems (GIS) software. The geodatabases contain national coverage (for geographic boundaries or features) or state coverage (boundaries within state).
Where do TIGER files come from?
The source materials used in developing the TIGER database are principally 1:100,000 United States Geological Survey (USGS) topographic maps that were scanned by USGS for the Census Bureau, therefore, the positional accuracy of features is approximately +/- 167 feet.
What are the Tiger Line shapefiles for 2019?
SUGGESTED CITATION FILES: 2019 TIGER/Line Shapefiles(machine- readable data files) / prepared by the U.S. Census Bureau, 2019 TECHNICAL DOCUMENTATION: 2019 TIGER/Line Shapefiles Technical Documentation / prepared by the U.S. Census Bureau, 2019
When was the first Tiger Line file released?
The first release of the TIGER/Line Files was in 1989. These files provided the first nationwide street centerline coverage of the United States, Puerto Rico, and the Island Areas in a series of ASCII format fixed tables or record types.
What do you need to know about the Tiger Line?
Record layouts for the TIGER/Line with Selected Demographic and Economic Data contain the short name and a full description of each cell. User note on Congressional and State Legislative Districts in Geographic Products.
What are the geodatabases for the Tiger Line?
These geodatabases bring together geography from the 2019 TIGER/Line Shapefiles and data from the 2015-2019 American Community Survey (ACS) 5-year estimates. Record layouts for the TIGER/Line with Selected Demographic and Economic Data contain the short name and a full description of each cell.