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Series Information for the 2013 Cartographic Boundary File, State-Place, 1:500,000
dataset
2015-05
ISO 19115 Geographic Information - Metadata
2009-02-15
http://www2.census.gov/geo/tiger/GENZ2013/cb_2013_50_place_500k.zip
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120
INCITS (formerly FIPS) codes.
2013 Cartographic Boundary File, State-Place for Vermont, 1:500,000
201404
publication
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.
These files were specifically created to support small-scale thematic mapping. To
improve the appearance of shapes at small scales, areas are represented with fewer vertices
than detailed TIGER/Line Shapefiles. Cartographic boundary files take up less disk space
than their ungeneralized counterparts. Cartographic boundary files take less time to render
on screen than TIGER/Line Shapefiles. You can join this shapefile with table data downloaded
from American FactFinder by using the AFFGEOID field in the cartographic boundary file. If
detailed boundaries are required, please use the TIGER/Line Shapefiles instead of the
generalized cartographic boundary files.
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Cartographic Boundary
Generalized
Shapefile
State
Place
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Vermont
VT
place
INCITS 38:2009
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Access Constraints: None
Use Constraints:The intended display scale for this file is 1:500,000. This file should not be
displayed at scales larger than 1:500,000. These products are free to use in a product or
publication, however acknowledgement must be given to the U.S. Census Bureau as the source.
The boundary information is for visual display at appropriate small scales only.
Cartographic boundary files should not be used for geographic analysis including area or
perimeter calculation. Files should not be used for geocoding addresses. Files should not be
used for determining precise geographic area relationships.
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boundaries
The cartographic boundary files contain geographic data only and do not
include display mapping software or statistical data. For information on how to use
cartographic boundary file data with specific software package users shall contact the
company that produced the software
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publication date
2014-04
2014-04
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Feature Catalog for the 2013 State-Place Cartographic Boundary File 1:500,000
http://meta.geo.census.gov/data/existing/decennial/GEO/CPMB/boundary/2014gz/place_500k/2014_place_500k.ea.iso.xml
SHP (compressed)
The cartographic boundary files contain geographic data only and do not
include display mapping software or statistical data. For information on how to use
cartographic boundary file data with specific software package users shall contact the
company that produced the software
The online cartographic boundary files may be downloaded without charge.
http://www.census.gov/geo/maps-data/data/tiger.html
TIGER Products
TIGER products are spatial extracts from the Census Bureau's MAF/TIGER database.
http://www2.census.gov/geo/tiger/GENZ2013/cb_2013_50_place_500k.zip
cb_2013_50_place_500k.zip
State-Place, 1:500,000
dataset
Horizontal Positional Accuracy
Data are not accurate. Data are generalized representations of geographic boundaries at 1:500,000.
meters
Missing
The cartographic boundary files are generalized representations of extracts
taken from the MAF/TIGER Database. Generalized boundary files are clipped to a simplified
version of the U.S. outline. As a result, some off-shore areas may be excluded from the
generalized files. Some small holes or discontiguous parts of areas are not included in
generalized files.
The Census Bureau performed automated tests to ensure logical
consistency of the source database. Segments making up the outer and inner boundaries of a
polygon tie end-to-end to completely enclose the area. All polygons were tested for closure.
The Census Bureau uses its internally developed geographic update system to enhance and
modify spatial and attribute data in the Census MAF/TIGER database. Standard geographic
codes, such as FIPS codes for states, counties, municipalities, county subdivisions, places,
American Indian/Alaska Native/Native Hawaiian areas, and congressional districts are used
when encoding spatial entities. The Census Bureau performed spatial data tests for logical
consistency of the codes during the compilation of the original Census MAF/TIGER database
files. Feature attribute information has been examined but has not been fully tested for
consistency. For the cartographic boundary shapefiles, the Point and Vector Object Count for
the G-polygon SDTS Point and Vector Object Type reflects the number of records in the
shapefile attribute table. For multi-polygon features, only one attribute record exists for
each multi-polygon rather than one attribute record per individual G-polygon component of
the multi-polygon feature. TIGER/Line Shapefile multi-polygons are an exception to the
G-polygon object type classification. Therefore, when multi-polygons exist in a shapefile,
the object count will be less than the actual number of
G-polygons.
Spatial data were extracted from the MAF/TIGER database and
processed through a U.S. Census Bureau batch generalization system.
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MAF/TIGER
201404
revision
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This was transformed from the Census Metadata Import Format