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    • TIGER/Line Shapefile, 2020, County, Tompkins County, NY, Topological Faces (Polygons With All Geocodes)

    Metadata Updated: January 28, 2024

    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 2020 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 December 1, 2023
    Metadata Created Date January 28, 2024
    Metadata Updated Date January 28, 2024
    Reference Date(s) 2020 (publication), 2020-05 (creation), 2022-12 (lastUpdate)
    Frequency Of Update notPlanned

    Metadata Source

    Harvested from Archived NGDA Standalones

    Other Data Resources

    Additional Metadata

    Resource Type Dataset
    Metadata Date December 1, 2023
    Metadata Created Date January 28, 2024
    Metadata Updated Date January 28, 2024
    Reference Date(s) 2020 (publication), 2020-05 (creation), 2022-12 (lastUpdate)
    Responsible Party U.S. Department of Commerce, U.S. Census Bureau, Geography Division, Spatial Data Collection and Products Branch (Point of Contact)
    Contact Email
    Guid tl_2020_36109_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 -76.237695
    Bbox North Lat 42.627419
    Bbox South Lat 42.262976
    Bbox West Long -76.696655
    Coupled Resource
    Frequency Of Update notPlanned
    Harvest Object Id 8b0730cc-c723-46d9-a49e-e41b5bb36693
    Harvest Source Id 1f2212ed-f1f8-4ea1-b928-e306f77f2247
    Harvest Source Title Archived NGDA Standalones
    Licence
    Lineage
    Metadata Language eng; USA
    Metadata Type geospatial
    Old Spatial {"type": "Polygon", "coordinates": [[[-76.696655, 42.262976], [-76.237695, 42.262976], [-76.237695, 42.627419], [-76.696655, 42.627419], [-76.696655, 42.262976]]]}
    Progress completed
    Spatial Data Service Type
    Spatial Reference System urn:ogc:def:crs:EPSG::4269
    Spatial Harvester True
    Temporal Extent Begin 2020-01
    Temporal Extent End 2030-11

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