From kbyrnes@vdh.state.va.us Mon Jan 27 08:00:38 2003 Received: from mxu3.u.washington.edu (mxu3.u.washington.edu [140.142.32.133]) by lists.u.washington.edu (8.12.1+UW01.12/8.12.1+UW02.12) with ESMTP id h0RG0cCK034036 for ; Mon, 27 Jan 2003 08:00:38 -0800 Received: from vdhsrv20.vdh.state.va.us (vdhsrv20.vdh.state.va.us [169.134.169.20]) by mxu3.u.washington.edu (8.12.1+UW01.12/8.12.1+UW02.12) with ESMTP id h0RG0Zkp024037 for ; Mon, 27 Jan 2003 08:00:35 -0800 Received: from [169.134.120.100] by vdhsrv20.vdh.state.va.us (NTMail 7.02.3037/NT1764.00.5148df18) with ESMTP id oxbrxbaa for waphgis@u.washington.edu; Mon, 27 Jan 2003 11:00:00 -0500 Received: from vdh.state.va.us ([10.51.107.42]) by vdhsrv1.vdh.state.va.us (iPlanet Messaging Server 5.2 HotFix 1.02 (built Sep 16 2002)) with ESMTP id <0H9D005LZR3ZRU@vdhsrv1.vdh.state.va.us>; Mon, 27 Jan 2003 10:59:59 -0500 (EST) Date: Mon, 27 Jan 2003 10:59:28 -0500 From: Kevin Byrnes Subject: 2002 TIGER-Line File Download Page To: "Peter H. Van Demark" Cc: Dick Hoskins Message-id: <3E355760.7090608@vdh.state.va.us> MIME-version: 1.0 Content-type: multipart/mixed; boundary="Boundary_(ID_s4J7ny1kbv70cI8DBO8ezA)" X-Accept-Language: en-us, en This is a multi-part message in MIME format. --Boundary_(ID_s4J7ny1kbv70cI8DBO8ezA) Content-type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-transfer-encoding: 7BIT Peter: Does Maptitude 4.6 support the new 2002 TIGER line format? If not, might we assume this will be added in an early re-build of 4.6? I have found Maptitude very easy to use in updating geographic layers with new TIGER file releases. I hope your answer is an affirmative one. Kevin Byrnes --Boundary_(ID_s4J7ny1kbv70cI8DBO8ezA) Content-type: text/html; name="2002 TIGER-Line File Download Page.htm" Content-transfer-encoding: 7BIT Content-disposition: inline; filename="2002 TIGER-Line File Download Page.htm" 2002 TIGER/Line File Download Page The U.S. Census Bureau

Picture of Census Bureau Tiger 2002 TIGER/Line® Files

The TIGER/Line files are extracts of selected geographic and cartographic information from the Census Bureau's TIGER® (Topologically Integrated Geographic Encoding and Referencing) database.

--Attention Data Users--

Major Changes to File Structure
The U.S. Census Bureau has made major structural changes to the 2002 TIGER/Line file format. We have deleted two record types (3 and 9) and added others (B, E, T, and U). Several record types were expanded and substantially revised by rearranging the location of the data fields. More Information.

Please note that the distribution unit for the 2002 TIGER/Line files will be by "current", or 2002, county. The 2002 TIGER/Line file coverage is as follows: all counties, parishes, boroughs, census areas and equivalent entities for each state, the District of Columbia, Puerto Rico and the Island Areas.

Feature Updates
The 2002 TIGER/Line files contain very few updates to street features or address ranges from the Census 2000 versions of the TIGER/Line files. Some additional features have been added in 20 counties where the Census Bureau realigned the street feature coordinates. Additional realigned counties will be included in the 2003 TIGER/Line files, however the Census Bureau expects the 2004 TIGER/Line files to be the first version of the TIGER/Line files to include a significant number of realigned counties with updated features that have progressed through the MAF/TIGER Accuracy Improvement Project.

THE CENSUS BUREAU'S TIGER/LINE PRODUCT
DOES NOT CONTAIN
DEMOGRAPHIC DATA OR MAPPING SOFTWARE

File Overview

There is one TIGER/Line file (in a compressed format) for each county or county equivalent. The file names consist of TGR + the 2-digit state FIPS (Federal Information Processing Standards) code + the 3-digit county FIPS code (i.e. TGR01031.ZIP for Coffee County, Alabama.) Each state folder contains individual county files as well as a Counts file. The county files are stored in compressed format and are compatible with PK Ware's PK Zip software. The COUNTSnn.TXT files (where "nn" is the state FIPS code) show the counts for the number of records for each record type by county for a state. If the count for a particular record type is 0, then that record type does not exist for that county.

The Census Bureau produces the TIGER/Line files in ASCII text format only; therefore, the data are NOT in the form of map images. To create maps with the TIGER/Line files, one would typically use a Geographic Information System (GIS) package or other mapping software.

Users are responsible for converting or translating the files into a format used by their specific software package. For information on how to use the TIGER/Line data with a specific software package one should contact the company that produced that software. For information on companies that sell products that use TIGER/Line data or that provide TIGER/Line related services, refer to the TIGER Vendor List.

Frequently Asked Questions about the 2002 version of TIGER/Line.

Documentation
To fully comprehend the content of these files, please read the following documents before downloading:
  • 2002 TIGER/Line README file [ASCII] text format.
  • 2002 TIGER/Line Technical Documentation in [PDF] format.
  • The 2002 TIGER/Line Metadata in [ASCII] text format.
  • Appendix A of the TIGER/Line Technical Documentation
    contains the associated FIPS codes for states and counties in [PDF] and [ASCII] text format.
  • Errata information

Think we've missed a few counties? The 2002 TIGER/Line files are based on the boundaries of counties or statistically equivalent entities as reported to the U.S. Census Bureau to be legally in effect on January 1, 2002.

Click on the appropriate state/state equivalent area to download the files.

Alabama Louisiana Ohio
Alaska Maine Oklahoma
Arizona Maryland Oregon
Arkansas Massachusetts Pennsylvania
California Michigan Puerto Rico
Colorado Minnesota Rhode Island
Connecticut Mississippi South Carolina
Delaware Missouri South Dakota
District of Columbia Montana Tennessee
Florida Nebraska Texas
Georgia Nevada Utah
Hawaii New Hampshire Vermont
Idaho New Jersey Virginia
Illinois New Mexico Washington
Indiana New York West Virginia
Iowa North Carolina Wisconsin
Kansas North Dakota Wyoming
Kentucky
U.S. Island Areas
American Samoa Guam Northern Mariana Islands
U.S. Virgin Islands


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Source: U.S. Census Bureau
Geography Division
Created: January 7, 2003
Last revised: Thursday, 16-Jan-2003 11:36:55 EST


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