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    • Series Information File for the 2017 TIGER/Line Shapefile, Topological Faces (Polygons With All Geocodes) County-based Shapefile

    Metadata Updated: December 2, 2020

    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.

    Face refers to the areal (polygon) topological primitives that make up MTDB. A face is bounded by one or more edges; its boundary includes only the edges that separate it from other faces, not any interior edges contained within the area of the face. The Topological Faces Shapefile contains the attributes of each topological primitive face. Each face has a unique topological face identifier (TFID) value. Each face in the shapefile includes the key geographic area codes for all geographic areas for which the Census Bureau tabulates data for both the 2010 Census and the annual estimates and surveys. The geometries of each of these geographic areas can then be built by dissolving the face geometries on the appropriate key geographic area codes in the Topological Faces Shapefile.

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    License: No license information was provided. If this work was prepared by an officer or employee of the United States government as part of that person's official duties it is considered a U.S. Government Work.

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    Dates

    Metadata Date July 30, 2019
    Metadata Created Date December 2, 2020
    Metadata Updated Date December 2, 2020
    Reference Date(s) 2017 (publication)
    Frequency Of Update notPlanned

    Metadata Source

    Harvested from 2017_faces

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    Additional Metadata

    Resource Type Series
    Metadata Date July 30, 2019
    Metadata Created Date December 2, 2020
    Metadata Updated Date December 2, 2020
    Reference Date(s) 2017 (publication)
    Responsible Party Unknown
    Contact Email
    Guid SeriesCollection_tl_2017_faces.shp.iso.xml
    Access Constraints 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.
    Bbox East Long 179.859681
    Bbox North Lat 71.441059
    Bbox South Lat -14.601813
    Bbox West Long -179.231086
    Collection Metadata true
    Coupled Resource
    Frequency Of Update notPlanned
    Harvest Object Id cf0ccb63-4b71-4cdd-b3d8-53387bedf44f
    Harvest Source Id 9b2dfb46-ef39-4c8f-b99b-4da26301066b
    Harvest Source Title 2017_faces
    Licence
    Metadata Language eng
    Metadata Type geospatial
    Progress
    Spatial Data Service Type
    Spatial Reference System
    Spatial Harvester True

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