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TIGER/Line

Last Updated: February 06, 2008 Related resource areas: Geospatial Technology

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TIGER/Line files are a digital database of geographic features, such as roads, railroads, rivers, lakes, political boundaries, and census statistical boundaries, covering the entire United States. The Tiger database contains information about these features, such as their location in latitude and longitude, their names, the types of features, address ranges for most streets, the geographic relationship to other features, and other related information.


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