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Title: TIGER IN ACTION: MAKING EFFECTIVE USE OF THE CENSUS BUREAU'S TIGER FILES
Accession Number: 00636499
Record Type: Component
Availability: American Association of State Highway and Transportation Officials (AASHTO) 444 North Capitol Street, NW Abstract: The Bureau of the Census, in cooperation with the U.S. Geological Survey, has created a computerized database containing nearly every street in the U.S. along with the entire census geography (e.g., census block and tract boundaries). This new system is called TIGER, which stands for Topologically Integrated Geographic Encoding and Referencing. The Census Bureau is using TIGER to create the paper maps that the census enumerators carry into the field when taking the census. TIGER/Line files, an extract of TIGER, are now available for all counties in the U.S. This paper provides all the information needed to put TIGER/Line to work in any transportation organization. It covers the origins of TIGER, the various versions that have and will be released, how to convert the raw TIGER files into a base map, how to enhance TIGER, how to use other Census Bureau data with TIGER, and examples of applying TIGER to transportation.
Language: English
Corporate Authors: American Association of State Highway and Transportation Officials (AASHTO) 444 North Capitol Street, NW Federal Highway Administration 1200 New Jersey Avenue, SE Transportation Research Board 500 Fifth Street, NW Authors: Simkowitz, H JPagination: 14p
Publication Date: 1990
Conference:
Proceedings of the 1990 Geographic Information Systems (GIS) for Transportation Symposium
Location:
San Antonio, Texas Features: Figures
TRT Terms: Old TRIS Terms: Subject Areas: Data and Information Technology; Highways; Planning and Forecasting; I21: Planning of Transport Infrastructure
Files: TRIS, TRB, USDOT
Created Date: Sep 7 1993 12:00AM
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