TIGER/Line Shapefile, 2015, nation, U.S., Current Metropolitan Division National Shapefile
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.
Metropolitan Divisions subdivide a Metropolitan Statistical Area containing a single core urban area that has a population of at least 2.5 million to
form smaller groupings of counties or equivalent entities. Not all Metropolitan Statistical Areas with urban areas of this size will contain
Metropolitan Divisions. Metropolitan Division are defined by the Office of Management and Budget (OMB) and consist of one or more main counties or
equivalent entities that represent an employment center or centers, plus adjacent counties associated with the main county or counties through commuting
ties. Because Metropolitan Divisions represent subdivisions of larger Metropolitan Statistical Areas, it is not appropriate to rank or compare
Metropolitan Divisions with Metropolitan and Micropolitan Statistical Areas.
The Metropolitan Divisions boundaries are those defined by OMB based on the 2010 Census and published in 2013.
Resources
6 resources available
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Shapefile Zip File
ZIP -
TIGER/Line®Shapefiles
TEXT/HTML -
TIGER/Line® Shapefiles 2015 Technical Documentation Shapefiles
PDF -
Feature Catalog for the 2015 TIGER/Line Shapefile Current Metropolitan Division National Shapefile
XML -
TIGERweb/tigerWMS_ACS2015 (MapServer)
TEXT/HTML -
TIGERweb/CBSA (MapServer)
TEXT/HTML
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| accessLevel | non-public |
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| description | 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. Metropolitan Divisions subdivide a Metropolitan Statistical Area containing a single core urban area that has a population of at least 2.5 million to form smaller groupings of counties or equivalent entities. Not all Metropolitan Statistical Areas with urban areas of this size will contain Metropolitan Divisions. Metropolitan Division are defined by the Office of Management and Budget (OMB) and consist of one or more main counties or equivalent entities that represent an employment center or centers, plus adjacent counties associated with the main county or counties through commuting ties. Because Metropolitan Divisions represent subdivisions of larger Metropolitan Statistical Areas, it is not appropriate to rank or compare Metropolitan Divisions with Metropolitan and Micropolitan Statistical Areas. The Metropolitan Divisions boundaries are those defined by OMB based on the 2010 Census and published in 2013. |
| distribution |
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| identifier | https://meta.geo.census.gov/data/existing/decennial/GEO/GPMB/TIGERline/TIGER2015/metdiv/tl_2015_us_metdiv.shp.iso.xml |
| issued | 2015-01-01T00:00:00.000+00:00 |
| keyword |
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"Nation",
"Polygon",
"Metropolitan Division",
"United States",
"U.S."
]
|
| language |
[]
|
| license | https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/ |
| modified | 2015-01-01T00:00:00.000+00:00 |
| publisher |
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| spatial | 179.859681,-14.601813,-179.231086,71.441059 |
| temporal | 2014-06-01T00:00:00+00:00/2015-05-01T00:00:00+00:00 |
| title | TIGER/Line Shapefile, 2015, nation, U.S., Current Metropolitan Division National Shapefile |
