eng dataset 2014-06-01 ISO 19115 Geographic Information - Metadata 2009-02-15 http://www2.census.gov/geo/tiger/TIGER2014/BG complex 3438 Federal Information Processing Series (FIPS), Geographic Names Information System (GNIS), and feature names. TIGER/Line Shapefile, 2014, Series Information File for the Current Block Group State-based Shapefile 2014 publication 2014 mapDigital Block Groups (BGs) are clusters of blocks within the same census tract. Each census tract contains at least one BG, and BGs are uniquely numbered within census tracts. BGs have a valid code range of 0 through 9. BGs have the same first digit of their 4-digit census block number from the same decennial census. For example, tabulation blocks numbered 3001, 3002, 3003,.., 3999 within census tract 1210.02 are also within BG 3 within that census tract. BGs coded 0 are intended to only include water area, no land area, and they are generally in territorial seas, coastal water, and Great Lakes water areas. Block groups generally contain between 600 and 3,000 people. A BG usually covers a contiguous area but never crosses county or census tract boundaries. They may, however, cross the boundaries of other geographic entities like county subdivisions, places, urban areas, voting districts, congressional districts, and American Indian / Alaska Native / Native Hawaiian areas. The BG boundaries in this release are those that were delineated as part of the Census Bureau's Participant Statistical Areas Program (PSAP) for the 2010 Census. In order for others to use the information in the Census MAF/TIGER database in a geographic information system (GIS) or for other geographic applications, the Census Bureau releases to the public extracts of the database in the form of TIGER/Line Shapefiles. completed notPlanned No changes or updates will be made to this version of the TIGER/Line Shapefiles. Future releases of TIGER/Line Shapefiles will reflect updates made to the Census MAF/TIGER database. State or equivalent entity Polygon Block Group BG Boundaries theme None U.S. State or Equivalent Entity place ANSI INCITS 38:2009 (Formerly FIPS 5-2), ANSI INCITS 31:2009 (Formerly FIPS 6-4),ANSI INCITS 454:2009 (Formerly FIPS 8-6), ANSI INCITS 455:2009(Formerly FIPS 9-1), ANSI INCITS 446:2008 (Geographic Names Information System (GNIS)) otherRestrictions 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 acknowledgment 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. Distribution Liability: No warranty, expressed or implied is made with regard to the accuracy of these data, and no liability is assumed by the U.S. Government in general or the U.S. Census Bureau in specific as to the spatial or attribute accuracy of the data. The act of distribution shall not constitute any such warranty and no responsibility is assumed by the U.S. government in the use of these files. The boundary information in the TIGER/Line Shapefiles is for statistical data collection and tabulation purposes only; their depiction and designation for statistical purposes do not constitute a determination of jurisdictional authority or rights of ownership or entitlement and they are not legal land descriptions. eng boundaries Technical Prerequisites: The TIGER/Line shapefiles contain geographic data only and do not include display mapping software or statistical data. For information on how to use the TIGER/Line shapefile data with specific software package users shall contact the company that produced the software. -179.231086 179.859681 -14.601813 71.441059 Publication Date 2013-06 2014-05 true Feature Catalog for the Current Block Group State-based Shapefile 2014-06-01 http://meta.geo.census.gov/data/existing/decennial/GEO/GPMB/TIGERline/TIGER2014/bg/tl_2014_bg.shp.ea.iso.xml TGRSHP(compressed) PK-ZIP, version 1.93 A or higher The online copy of the TIGER/Line Shapefiles may be accessed without charge. To obtain more information about ordering TIGER/Line Shapefiles visit http://www.census.gov/geo/www/tiger http://www2.census.gov/geo/tiger/TIGER2014/BG Folder for the 2014 Current Block Group State-based Shapefiles http://www2.census.gov/geo/pdfs/maps-data/data/tiger/tgrshp2014/TGRSHP2014_TechDoc.pdf TIGER/Line® Shapefiles 2014 Technical Documentation Specifications for the 2014 TIGER/Line Shapefiles http://www.census.gov/geo/www/tiger More information on TIGER\Line files http://meta.geo.census.gov/data/existing/decennial/GEO/GPMB/TIGERline/TIGER2014/place/tl_2014_place.shp.ea.iso.xml Feature Catalog for the 2014 Current Place Division National Shapefile notPlanned This metadata was automatically generated from the FGDC Content Standards for Digital Geospatial Metadata standard version FGDC-STD-001-1998 using the June 2011 version of the csdgm2iso19115-2_master.xslt stylesheet, which is based on NOAA's FGDC CSDGM to ISO 19115-2 transform. This stylesheet has been modified for Census use by separating the stylesheets into various sections. The Spatial Reference Information is not currently mapped over to ISO but will be mapped in future versions.