SeriesInfo2019cd116KML.shp.iso.xml eng UTF-8 series 20200619 ISO 19115 Geographic Information - Metadata 2009-02-15 https://www.census.gov/geographies/mapping-files/time-series/geo/cartographic-boundary.html Series Information for the 2019 Cartographic Boundary KML, 116th Congressional Districts for United States 20200521 publication U.S. Department of Commerce, U.S. Census Bureau, Geography Division, Geographic Customer Services Branch 301.763.1128 301.763.4710 4600 Silver Hill Road Washington DC 20233-7400 United States geo.geography@census.gov The 2019 cartographic boundary KMLs 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 files while others are available only as state-based files. KML is a file format used to display geographic data in an Earth browser such as Google Earth. KML uses a tag-based structure with nested elements and attributes and is based on the XML standard. Congressional Districts are the 435 areas from which people are elected to the U.S. House of Representatives. After the apportionment of congressional seats among the states based on census population counts, each state is responsible for establishing congressional districts for the purpose of electing representatives. Each congressional district is to be as equal in population to all other congressional districts in a state as practicable. The 116th Congress is seated from January 2019 to 2021. The cartographic boundary files for the District of Columbia, Puerto Rico, and the Island Areas (American Samoa, Guam, the Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands, and the U.S. Virgin Islands) each contain a single record for the non-voting delegate district in these areas. The boundaries of all other congressional districts are provided to the Census Bureau by the states by May 1, 2018. The 116th congressional districts shapefiles availiable at the 1:5,000,000, 1:2,0000,000 and 1:500,000 scales. 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 file 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. 2019 KML Google Earth Cartographic Boundary Congressional District >Generalized None United Sates U.S ISO 3166 Codes for the representation of names of countries and their subdivisions Use Constraints:The intended display scale for these files is listed in each file's metadata. This file should not be displayed at scales larger than listed. 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. eng UTF-8 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. -88.473227 -84.88908 30.223334 35.008028 publication date 202005 202005 ZIP HTML U.S. Department of Commerce, U.S. Census Bureau, Geography Division, Geographic Customer Services Branch 301.763.1128 301-763-4710 4600 Silver Hill Road Washington DC 20233-7400 United States geo.geography@census.gov The online cartographic boundary files may be downloaded without charge. 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