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U.S. Department of Commerce, U.S. Census Bureau, Geography Division (Originator)
2019
TIGER/Line Shapefile, 2019, Series Information for the Area Landmark State-based Shapefile
2019
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https://www2.census.gov/geo/tiger/TIGER2019/AREALM/
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.
The Census Bureau includes landmarks in the MTDB for locating special features and to help
enumerators during field operations. Some of the more common landmark types include area landmarks
such as airports, cemeteries, parks, schools, and churches and other religious institutions. The
Census Bureau added landmark features to MTDB on an as-needed basis and made no attempt to ensure
that all instances of a particular feature were included. The presence or absence of a landmark
such as a hospital or prison does not mean that the living quarters associated with that landmark
were geocoded to that census tabulation block or excluded from the census enumeration. The Area
Landmark Shapefile does not include military installations or water bodies because they each appear
in their own separate shapefiles, MIL.shp and AREAWATER.shp respectively.
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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Area Landmark
ISO 3166: Codes for the representation of names of
countries and their subdivisions
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United States
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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.
U.S. Department of Commerce, U.S. Census Bureau, Geography
Division
4600 Silver Hill Road
Washington
DC
20233-7400
USA
301.763.1128
geo.geography@census.gov
U.S. Department of Commerce, U.S. Census Bureau, Geography
Division, Spatial Data Collection and Products Branch
4600 Silver Hill Road
Washington
DC
20233-7400
USA
301.763.1128
geo.geography@census.gov
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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https://www2.census.gov/geo/tiger/TIGER2019/AREALM/
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https://www.census.gov/geographies/mapping-files/time-series/geo/tiger-line-file.html
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https://meta.geo.census.gov/data/existing/decennial/GEO/GPMB/TIGERline/Tiger2019/arealm/tl_2019_arealm.ea.iso.xml
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The online copy of the TIGER/Line Shapefiles may be accessed without charge.
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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Spatial Data Collection and Products Branch
Geographic information — Metadata — Part 1: Fundamentals(2014)
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