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TIGER/Line Shapefile, 2022, State, Massachusetts, Area Landmark

Metadata Updated: January 27, 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 filewith no overlaps or gaps between parts, however, each TIGER/Line shapefile is designed to stand alone as an independentdata set, or they can be combined to cover the entire nation. The Census Bureau includes landmarks in the MTDB for locating special features and to help enumerators during field operations. Some of the more common landmark types include area landmarks such as airports, cemeteries, parks, schools, andchurches and other religious institutions. The Census Bureau added landmark features to MTDB on an as-needed basis andmade no attempt to ensure that all instances of a particular feature were included. The presence or absence of a landmark such as a hospital or prison does not mean that the living quarters associated with that landmark were geocoded to that census tabulation block or excluded from the census enumeration. The Area Landmark Shapefile does not include military installations or water bodies because they each appear in their own separate shapefiles, MIL.shp and AREAWATER.shp respectively.

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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 27, 2024
Metadata Updated Date January 27, 2024
Reference Date(s) 2022 (publication), 2022-08 (creation), 2022-08 (lastUpdate)
Frequency Of Update notPlanned

Metadata Source

Harvested from Archived NGDA Standalones

Additional Metadata

Resource Type Dataset
Metadata Date December 1, 2023
Metadata Created Date January 27, 2024
Metadata Updated Date January 27, 2024
Reference Date(s) 2022 (publication), 2022-08 (creation), 2022-08 (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_2022_25_arealm.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 -69.858861
Bbox North Lat 42.886778
Bbox South Lat 41.187053
Bbox West Long -73.50821
Coupled Resource
Frequency Of Update notPlanned
Harvest Object Id c864a4e7-b48d-42c6-8492-4b991a3eb40c
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": [[[-73.50821, 41.187053], [-69.858861, 41.187053], [-69.858861, 42.886778], [-73.50821, 42.886778], [-73.50821, 41.187053]]]}
Progress completed
Spatial Data Service Type
Spatial Reference System urn:ogc:def:crs:EPSG::4269
Spatial Harvester True
Temporal Extent Begin 2021-06
Temporal Extent End 2022-08

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