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Series Information for the 2013 Cartographic Boundary File, Metropolitan Statistical Area/Micropolitan Statistical Area , 1:500,000

Summary

Type of release
a one-off release of a set of related datasets

Data Licence
Not Applicable

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Creative Commons CCZero

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Release Date
7 July 2014
Modified Date
27 April 2015
Update Frequency
notPlanned
Publishers
US Census Bureau, Department of Commerce
Identifier
series-information-for-the-2013-cartographic-boundary-file-metropolitan-statistical-area-microp
Landing Page
http://catalog.data.gov/dataset/series-information-for-the-2013-cartographic-boundary-file-metropolitan-statistical-area-microp

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Description

The 2013 cartographic boundary shapefiles are simplified representations of selected geographic areas from the U.S. Census Bureau's Master Address File / Topologically Integrated Geographic Encoding and Referencing (MAF/TIGER) Database (MTDB). These boundary files are specifically designed for small-scale thematic mapping. When possible generalization is performed with the intent to maintain the hierarchical relationships among geographies and to maintain the alignment of geographies within a file set for a given year. Geographic areas may not align with the same areas from another year. Some geographies are available as nation-based shapefiles while others are available only as state-based files.


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