TIGER5---Extraction of geographic information from the TIGER system

Gryder, R K

Title: TIGER5---Extraction of geographic information from the TIGER system

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The need for geographic information in digital form is becoming apparent in many areas, including Emergency Response Planning and Management. The Bureau of Census recognized this need and developed an automated geographic data base, known as Topologically Integrated Geographic Encoding and Referencing (TIGER) System, to produce the geographic products for the 1990 census. The Bureau makes the information available to the public on CD-ROM disks. As distributed, the geographic information is not directly visible, and a program is needed to display the information in a graphic form. MapInfo is a commercially available program that has the capability to display maps and allows the user to perform certain geographic analyses. MapInfo runs on a variety of low-cost platforms that may be found in an average office environment, as well as on high-performance work stations. The TIGER5 program developed by the Emergency Management Information Systems (EMIS) project at Oak Ridge National Laboratory reads files directly from the Census Bureau TIGER/Line CD-ROM and creates MapInfo Exchange Format Files that can be directly imported into MapInfo. The standard default values for scaling parameters are used, and the resulting map is in the same coordinate system as the world and state maps distributed with MapInfo.

Authors:: Gryder, R K

Publication Date:: Sun Mar 01 00:00:00 EST 1992

Research Org.:: Oak Ridge National Lab., TN (United States)

Sponsoring Org.:: USDOD; Department of Defense, Washington, DC (United States)

OSTI Identifier:: 5159141

Report Number(s):: ORNL/TM-12061
ON: DE92014935

DOE Contract Number:: AC05-84OR21400

Resource Type:: Technical Report

Country of Publication:: United States

Language:: English

Subject:: 99 GENERAL AND MISCELLANEOUS//MATHEMATICS, COMPUTING, AND INFORMATION SCIENCE; 29 ENERGY PLANNING, POLICY AND ECONOMY; DEMOGRAPHY; SURVEYS; GEOGRAPHY; INFORMATION SYSTEMS; MAPPING; SOCIO-ECONOMIC FACTORS; T CODES; COMPUTER CODES; INSTITUTIONAL FACTORS; 990301* - Information Handling- Data Handling- (1992-); 290200 - Energy Planning & Policy- Economics & Sociology

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