# Presentation: 803068

## State Data Center / Federal State Cooperative Program for Population Estimates Joint MeetingRecent Developments:MAF/TIGER Enhancements Program

- Linda M. Franz
- Assistant Division Chief for
- Geographic Partnerships Programs
- U. S. Census Bureau
- March 29, 2004
- Boston, MA

##    Five Objectives for the MAF/TIGER   Enhancements Program (MTEP)

- 1998

- 2000

**One**** ****–**** ****Correct the locations of  all streets and other map features ****    used for orientation** (**in TIGER) and implement automated change**
**    ****detection methods**

## Five Objectives for MTEP (Cont’d)

- Finding the Right Balance

**Performance**

**Application **
**Development **
**Time**

**Standards**

**Interoperable**
**Tools**

**Modernized MAF/TIGER**
**Processing System**

**Off-the-shelf**
**Applications**

**Custom Applications**

**  ****Two**** ****–**** ****Develop/deploy a** **new MAF/TIGER processing environment ****                based on COTS and GIS tools**

## Five Objectives for MTEP (Cont’d)

**Three**** ****–**** ****Expand and encourage geographic partnership programs****                  with state, local and tribal governments, other federal **
**                  ****agencies, and the private sector**

**Five Objectives for MTEP**** ****(Cont’d)**

## Five Objectives for MTEP (Cont’d)

**Four**** ****–**** ****Implement the Community Address Updating System****   primarily for rural areas (areas without city-style mailing addresses)****   to ensure a complete and accurate MAF/TIGER nationwide**

**Five Objectives for MTEP**** ****(Cont’d)**

## Five Objectives for MTEP (Cont’d)

**Five**** ****–**** ****Implement** **periodic evaluation activities to provide ****               more and better quality measures and to guide corrective ****               actions needed to further improve MAF/TIGER**

**Five Objectives for MTEP**** ****(Cont’d)**

## MTEP Objective 1 – MTAIPCurrent Status

**Objective 1**
**MAF/TIGER Accuracy Improvement Process (MTAIP)**
**Status**
**Production schedule**
**Lessons learned**
**Feedback to source providers**

## Objective 1 MTAIP - Acquisition

**Objective 1 MTAIP - Acquisition**

## Objective 1 MTAIP - Spatial Accuracy

**Objective 1 MTAIP - Spatial Accuracy**

**Notes:**
Status of spatial accuracy, including:
 county files that meet the 7.6 meter accuracy for MTAIP
 county files that do not meet the 7.6 meter accuracy for MTAIP 
 county files awaiting evaluation

## Objective 1 MTAIP - Production Schedule 

**Objective 1 MTAIP - Production Schedule**

**Notes:**
Status of counties currently undergoing alignment and those that have completed realignment

## Objective 1 MTAIP Production Schedule 

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- 600

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-  Initial Realignment

-   250

-   600

-    700

-   700

-   600

-   383

- GFY 2003

- GFY 2004

- GFY 2005

- GFY 2006

- GFY 2007

- GFY 2008

|    Cumulative | 250 | 850 | 1,550 | 2,250 | 2,850 | 3,233 |
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## MTAIP Lessons Learned

**Census Bureau requirements can be very different from State/Local/Tribal GIS files**
**Street centerline approach differs from cadastre-level geography**
**Local files may not follow Census Bureau definition of topology**

## MTAIP Feedback to source providers

**The Census Bureau will offer a “local edition” TIGER/Line file that includes information about the data used to realign TIGER to local source providers.  **

## MTEP Objective 2 - MAF/TIGER Processing EnvironmentCurrent Status

**High-level system requirements**
**Underway**
**Market research on spatial database and GIS applications**
**Underway**
**Maintenance of existing legacy software**
**No new enhancements**

## MTEP Objective 3 – Partnerships Federal AgencyCurrent Status

**USGS – The National Map**
- Providing road and governmental boundary layers
- Provided two enhanced counties for test delivery purposes
**Census Regional Office/ USGS State Liaison**

## MTEP Objective 3 – Partnerships Federal AgencyCurrent Status

**Hosted multi-agency meeting on utilization of existing imagery**
- FEMA, NGA, NOAA, USDA, USGS
**Geospatial One-Stop steward for two data themes**
**Administrative and Political Boundaries**
**Culture, Society and Demography**

## MTEP Objective 3 – PartnershipsTIGER Enhancements DatabaseCurrent Status

**TED – TIGER Enhancements Database**
**An inventory of geospatial data sources**
**Census plans to make TED extracts available to interested federal agencies and state and local governments via national organizations that coordinate or provide spatial data**

## TIGER/Line 2003

**Released**
**New data for Metropolitan and Micropolitan Statistical Areas**
**2002 Economic Census geography**
**Few feature updates**
**FGDC-compliant metadata at county level **

## Ongoing, New, and Planned Developments

**WebTIGER**
**WebBAS**
**TIGER/Can**
**Group quarters geocoding project**

**TIGER/GML**

## TIGER/GML Potential uses

**Interact with State/Local/Tribal GIS Files**
**Public correction of American Fact Finder errors**
**Digital Exchange Process with Local Government partners**
**Boundary and Annexation Survey**
**Local Update of Census Addresses**
**Field Map Spotting**

## WebTIGER

**Ability to view maps of and download data from the Census Bureau's TIGER****®**** geographic database without specialized software **
**Serves TIGER****®**** data and map images over the**** Internet using Geography Markup Language (GML) **
-  OpenGIS Consortium (OGC) standards compliant
-  WebTIGER utilizes TIGER/GML

## WebBAS

## Group quarters geocoding project

**Initial focus on college dormitories**
**May – December 2004**

## Questions?

- contact: linda.m.franz@census.gov