tl_2013_30_sldu.shp.xml
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TIGER/Line Shapefile, 2013,
Series Information for the Current State Legislative District (SLD) Upper Chamber
dataset
2013-11-18
ISO 19115 Geographic
Information - Metadata
2009-02-15
http://www2.census.gov/geo/tiger/TIGER2013/SLDU/tl_2013_30_sldu.zip
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Federal
Information Processing Series (FIPS), ANSI, and feature
names.
TIGER/Line
Shapefile, 2013, state, Montana, Current State Legislative District (SLD) Upper
Chamber
2013
publication
2013
mapDigital
The TIGER/Line
shapefiles and related database files (.dbf) are an extract of selected geographic
and cartographic information from the U.S. Census Bureau's Master Address File /
Topologically Integrated Geographic Encoding and Referencing (MAF/TIGER) Database
(MTDB). The MTDB represents a seamless national file with no overlaps or gaps between
parts, however, each TIGER/Line shapefile is designed to stand alone as an
independent data set, or they can be combined to cover the entire nation. State
Legislative Districts (SLDs) are the areas from which members are elected to State
legislatures. The SLDs embody the upper (senate) and lower (house) chambers of the
State legislature. Nebraska has a unicameral legislature and the District of Columbia
has a single council, both of which the Census Bureau treats as upper-chamber
legislative areas for the purpose of data presentation; there are no data by SLDL for
either Nebraska or the District of Columbia. A unique three-character census code,
identified by State participants, is assigned to each SLD within a state. In
Connecticut, Illinois, Louisiana, Maine, Maryland, Massachusetts, Michigan, Ohio, and
Puerto Rico, the Redistricting Data Program (RDP) participant did not define the SLDs
to cover all of the state or state equivalent area. In these areas with no SLDs
defined, the code "ZZZ" has been assigned, which is treated as a single SLD for
purposes of data presentation. The boundaries of the 2012 State legislative districts
were provided by State-level participants through the RDP and reflect the districts
used to elect members in or prior to the November 2012
election.
In order for others to
use the information in the Census MAF/TIGER database in a geographic information
system (GIS) or for other geographic applications, the Census Bureau releases to the
public extracts of the database in the form of TIGER/Line
Shapefiles.
completed
notPlanned
No changes or
updates will be made to this version of the TIGER/Line Shapefiles. Future
releases of TIGER/Line Shapefiles will reflect updates made to the Census
MAF/TIGER database.
State or
equivalent entity
Polygon
Legislative
District
theme
None
United
States
U.S.
State or
Equivalent Entity
Montana
MT
30
place
ANSI
INCITS 38:2009 (Formerly FIPS 5-2), ANSI INCITS 31:2009 (Formerly FIPS
6-4),ANSI INCITS 454:2009 (Formerly FIPS 8-6), ANSI INCITS
455:2009(Formerly FIPS 9-1), ANSI INCITS 446:2008 (Geographic Names
Information System (GNIS))
otherRestrictions
Access Constraints: None
Use Constraints:
The TIGER/Line Shapefile products are not copyrighted however TIGER/Line and
Census TIGER are registered trademarks of the U.S. Census Bureau. 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
in the TIGER/Line Shapefiles are for statistical data collection and tabulation
purposes only; their depiction and designation for statistical purposes does
not constitute a determination of jurisdictional authority or rights of
ownership or entitlement and they are not legal land descriptions. Coordinates
in the TIGER/Line shapefiles have six implied decimal places, but the
positional accuracy of these coordinates is not as great as the six decimal
places suggest.
Distribution
Liability: No warranty, expressed or implied is made with regard to the
accuracy of these data, and no liability is assumed by the U.S. Government in
general or the U.S. Census Bureau in specific as to the spatial or attribute
accuracy of the data. The act of distribution shall not constitute any such
warranty and no responsibility is assumed by the U.S. government in the use of
these files. The boundary information in the TIGER/Line Shapefiles is for
statistical data collection and tabulation purposes only; their depiction and
designation for statistical purposes do not constitute a determination of
jurisdictional authority or rights of ownership or entitlement and they are not
legal land descriptions.
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boundaries
Technical
Prerequisites: The TIGER/Line shapefiles contain geographic data only and do not
include display mapping software or statistical data. For information on how to use
the TIGER/Line shapefile data with specific software package users shall contact the
company that produced the software.
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Publication Date
2012-06
2013-05
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Current
State Legislative District (SLD) Upper Chamber
Feature Catalog
for the 2013 Current State Legislative District (SLD) Upper Chamber
2013-06-15
http://meta.geo.census.gov/data/existing/decennial/GEO/GPMB/TIGERline/TIGER2013/sldu/2013_sldu.ea.iso.xml
TGRSHP
(compressed)
PK-ZIP, version
1.93 A or higher
The online
copy of the TIGER/Line Shapefiles may be accessed without
charge.
To obtain
more information about ordering TIGER/Line Shapefiles visit
http://www.census.gov/geo/www/tiger
http://www2.census.gov/geo/tiger/TIGER2013/SLDU/tl_2013_30_sldu.zip
dvdRom
iso9660
dataset
Attribute
Accuracy
Accurate against
Federal Information Processing Series (FIPS), FIPS Publication 6-4, and FIPS-55
at the 100% level for the codes and base names. The remaining attribute
information has been examined but has not been fully tested for
accuracy.
Data
completeness of the TIGER/Line Shapefiles reflects the contents of the Census
MAF/TIGER database at the time the TIGER/Line Shapefiles were
created.
Logical
Consistency Report
The Census
Bureau performed automated tests to ensure logical consistency and limits of
shapefiles. Segments making up the outer and inner boundaries of a polygon tie
end-to-end to completely enclose the area. All polygons are 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. Most of the codes for geographic entities except
states, counties, urban areas, Core Based Statistical Areas (CBSAs), American
Indian Areas (AIAs), and congressional districts were provided to the Census
Bureau by the USGS, the agency responsible for maintaining FIPS 55. Feature
attribute information has been examined but has not been fully tested for
consistency. For the TIGER/Line 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.
TIGER/Line
Shapefiles are extracted from the Census MAF/TIGER database by nation,
state, county, and entity. Census MAF/TIGER data for all of the
aforementioned geographic entities are then distributed among the
shapefiles each containing attributes for line, polygon, or landmark
geographic data.
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segments This was delivered online.
MAF/TIGER
2013
revision
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segments This was delivered online.
Census MAF/TIGER database
MAF/TIGER
publication
U.S. Department
of Commerce, U.S. Census Bureau, Geography
Division
resourceProvider
mapDigital
Publication Date
2012-06
2013-05
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This metadata was
automatically generated from the FGDC Content Standards for Digital Geospatial
Metadata standard version FGDC-STD-001-1998 using the June 2011 version of the
csdgm2iso19115-2_master.xslt stylesheet, which is based on NOAA's FGDC CSDGM to ISO
19115-2 transform. This stylesheet has been modified for Census use by separating
into various sections. The Spatial Reference Information is not currently mapped over
to ISO but will be mapped in future versions.