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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_47_sldu.zip
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Federal Information Processing Series (FIPS), ANSI, and feature names.
TIGER/Line Shapefile, 2013, state, Tennessee, Current State Legislative District (SLD) Upper Chamber
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2013
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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.
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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
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Legislative District
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U.S.
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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))
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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 acknowledgment
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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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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2012-06
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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_47_sldu.zip
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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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This was delivered online.
MAF/TIGER
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This was delivered online.
Census MAF/TIGER database
MAF/TIGER
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U.S. Department of Commerce, U.S. Census Bureau, Geography Division
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Publication Date
2012-06
2013-05
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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.