2004 First Edition TIGER/Line®
Record Layout
Expected release date: December 2004. With the 2004 First Edition TIGER/Line files, the U.S. Census Bureau is beginning twice a year releases of the TIGER/Line files. The 2004 First Edition TIGER/Line files are the first of two versions of the TIGER/Line files that will contain 2004 geographic boundaries.
The 2004 First Edition TIGER/Line files are the first version of the TIGER/Line files to include a significant number of counties or statistically equivalent entities containing realigned street feature coordinates that have progressed through the MAF/TIGER Accuracy Improvement Project. Except for those counties with improved street feature coordinates, the 2004 First Edition TIGER/Line files contain very few updates to street features or address ranges from the Census 2000 versions of the TIGER/Line files.
The Census Bureau has added a new record type to the 2004 First Edition TIGER/Line files. Record Type M provides spatial metadata for each feature in a TIGER/Line file, identifying the source for the spatial coordinates. A description and explanation of the fields in Record Type M is available. We also have added two new fields (UACU and URCU) to Record Type A containing the corrections to the Census 2000 Urbanized Areas and Urban Clusters announced by the Census Bureau in August 2002.
2004 First Edition TIGER/Line File Record Layout [PDF]
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Source: U.S. Census Bureau
Geography Division
Created: July 6, 2004
Last revised: Thursday, 07-Oct-2004 13:21:06 EDT
