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TIGER/Line Shapefile, 2012, Series Information File for the Current Area Landmark Shapefiles
Summary
- Type of release
- a one-off release of a set of related datasets
- Data Licence
- Not Applicable
- Content Licence
- Creative Commons CCZero
- Verification
- automatically awarded
- Release Date
- 26 March 2013
- Modified Date
- 21 January 2015
- Update Frequency
- notPlanned
- Publishers
- US Census Bureau, Department of Commerce
- Identifier
- tiger-line-shapefile-2012-series-information-file-for-the-current-area-landmark-shapefiles
- Landing Page
- http://catalog.data.gov/dataset/tiger-line-shapefile-2012-series-information-file-for-the-current-area-landmark-shapefiles
- Temporal Coverage
- 1 August 2011 — 1 June 2012
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Description
The TIGER/Line shapefiles and related database files (.dbf) are an extract of selected geographic and cartographic information from the U.S. Census Bureau's Master Address File / Topologically Integrated Geographic Encoding and Referencing (MAF/TIGER) Database (MTDB). The MTDB represents a seamless national file with no overlaps or gaps between parts, however, each TIGER/Line shapefile is designed to stand alone as an independent data set, or they can be combined to cover the entire nation. The Census Bureau includes landmarks in the MTDB for locating special features and to help enumerators during field operations. Some of the more common landmark types include area landmarks such as airports, cemeteries, parks, schools, and churches and other religious institutions. The Census Bureau added landmark features to MTDB on an as-needed basis and made no attempt to ensure that all instances of a particular feature were included. The presence or absence of a landmark such as a hospital or prison does not mean that the living quarters associated with that landmark were geocoded to that census tabulation block or excluded from the census enumeration. The Area Landmark Shapefile does not include military installations or water bodies because they each appear in their own separate shapefiles, MIL.shp and AREAWATER.shp respectively.
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This data is described at
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