GEOG 3523, Computer Cartography, NSU
 

Census TIGER 2000 Files

TIGER files are Topologically Intergrated, Geographically Encoded and Referenced files developed by the U.S. Census Bureau (in conjunction with the USGS) for use in conducting the 2000 census.  These are the most complete and up-to-date, public domain files of major spatial features in the U.S.  These spatial features include all census geography (states, counties, census tracts, block groups, blocks, etc.), roads, streams, school districts, and more.

The TIGER 2000 spatial features files are now available FREE for downloading in shapefile (.shp) format from ESRI at the URL listed below:

   http://www.geographynetwork.com/data/tiger2000/

These files are compressed in .ZIP format and must be uncompressed (unzipped) before being used in ArcView GIS or ArcExplorer.  NSU students can experiment with what is available by using the TIGER 2000 files for Cherokee County, Oklahoma that have been unzipped and stored on the NSUnet in the "transfer on student (i:)" drive.  They are in the ziehr folder and then the CherokeeCounty folder.  All the TIGER files begin with tgr....  Read the "readme-CensusTIGER2000.html" (on the i: drive in the ziehr\CherokeeCounty folder) to see an explanation of the abbreviations that are used in the filenames of the TIGER data layers.

Revised February 2, 2001.