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    • TIGER/Line Shapefile, 2017, nation, U.S., Military Installation National Shapefile

    Metadata Updated: January 13, 2021

    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 such as military installations in the MTDB for locating special features and to help enumerators during field operations. In 2012, the Census Bureau obtained the inventory and boundaries of most military installations from the U.S. Department of Defense (DOD) for Air Force, Army, Marine, and Navy installations and from the U.S. Department of Homeland Security (DHS) for Coast Guard installations.

    The military installation boundaries in this release represent the updates the Census Bureau made in 2012 in collaboration with DoD.

    Access & Use Information

    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 June 1, 2017
    Metadata Created Date January 13, 2021
    Metadata Updated Date January 13, 2021
    Reference Date(s) 2017 (publication)
    Frequency Of Update notPlanned

    Metadata Source

    Harvested from 2017_mil

    Other Data Resources

    Additional Metadata

    Resource Type Dataset
    Metadata Date June 1, 2017
    Metadata Created Date January 13, 2021
    Metadata Updated Date January 13, 2021
    Reference Date(s) 2017 (publication)
    Responsible Party Unknown
    Contact Email
    Guid tl_2017_us_mil.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 71.439786
    Bbox South Lat -14.601813
    Bbox West Long -179.231086
    Coupled Resource
    Frequency Of Update notPlanned
    Harvest Object Id deacd67a-1118-4c29-9524-e2781af54f96
    Harvest Source Id 0838a378-57a5-4621-86a0-59c7389549c0
    Harvest Source Title 2017_mil
    Licence
    Metadata Language eng
    Metadata Type geospatial
    Old Spatial {"type": "Polygon", "coordinates": [[[-179.231086, -14.601813], [179.859681, -14.601813], [179.859681, 71.439786], [-179.231086, 71.439786], [-179.231086, -14.601813]]]}
    Progress completed
    Spatial Data Service Type
    Spatial Reference System
    Spatial Harvester True
    Temporal Extent Begin 2016-06
    Temporal Extent End 2017-05

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