Topologically Integrated Geographic Encoding and Referencing
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- TIGER redirects here. For other uses see Tiger (disambiguation).
Topologically Integrated Geographic Encoding and Referencing, or TIGER, or TIGER/Line is a format used by the United States Census Bureau to describe land attributes such as roads, buildings, rivers, and lakes. The data can be used by GIS applications and is available without cost due to the requirement for U.S. Government publications to be released into the Public Domain.
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The TIGER/Line data includes complete coverage of the United States, Puerto Rico, the U.S. Virgin Islands, American Samoa, Guam, the Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands, and the Midway Islands.