Downloads
.zip containing:
- statewide ESRI Shapefile (census2000tiger_arc.*)
- ArcView legend file (.avl) based on CFCC
- ArcMap layer file (.lyr) based on CFCC
Overview
The TIGER Linework layer contains characteristics relating to roads networks, some water features (rivers and streams, canals, etc.), political boundaries, and other features. The road features contain address ranges that may be used in geocoding (address matching) applications. An ArcGIS Address Locator may be created using the US Streets with Zone type, with the ZIP Code fields being used for the zones.
The CFCC (Census Feature Class Code) field may be used to determine the feature type.
Note: For source and production information, see the What MassGIS Provides section on the main MassGIS Census 2000 Web page.
Attributes
The arc attributes (census2000tiger_arc.dbf) for the Census 2000 TIGER Linework shapefile distributed by MassGIS contains the following items:
| ITEM NAME | TYPE / WIDTH | DESCRIPTION |
|---|---|---|
| OBJECTID | N / 10 | Record Number |
| LENGTH | N / 19 | Arc segment length |
| RT | C / 1 | Record Type |
| VERSION | N / 4 | Version code specifying type of release |
| TLID | N / 10 | TIGER/Line Identification Number |
| SIDE1 | N / 1 | Single-Side Complete Chain Code |
| SOURCE | C / 1 | Source code to document feature inclusion date |
| FEDIRP | C / 2 | Feature Direction; Prefix |
| FENAME | C / 30 | Feature Name |
| FETYPE | C / 4 | Feature Type |
| FEDIRS | C / 2 | Feature Direction Suffix |
| CFCC | C / 3 | Census Feature Class Code |
| FRADDL | N / 11 | Starting address range value; left side |
| TOADDL | N / 11 | Ending address range value; left side |
| FRADDR | N / 11 | Starting address range value; right side |
| TOADDR | N / 11 | Ending address range value; right side |
| FRIADDL | N / 1 | Impute flag; starting address range; left side |
| TOIADDL | N / 1 | Impute flag; ending address range; left side |
| FRIADDR | N / 1 | Impute flag; starting address range; right side |
| TOIADDR | N / 1 | Impute flag; ending address range; right side |
| ZIPL | N / 5 | ZIP code® on left side of arc; numeric |
| ZIPR | N / 5 | ZIP code® on right hand side of arc; numeric |
| ZIPL_C | C / 5 | ZIP code® on left side of arc; text field |
| ZIPR_C | C / 5 | ZIP code® on right side of arc; text field |
| STREET | C / 50 | Complete concatenated street name |