2016 Cartographic Boundary File, United States, 1:20,000,000
The 2016 cartographic boundary shapefiles are simplified
representations of selected geographic areas from the U.S. Census Bureau's Master
Address File / Topologically Integrated Geographic Encoding and Referencing
(MAF/TIGER) Database (MTDB). These boundary files are specifically designed for
small-scale thematic mapping. When possible, generalization is performed with the
intent to maintain the hierarchical relationships among geographies and to maintain
the alignment of geographies within a file set for a given year. Geographic areas may
not align with the same areas from another year. Some geographies are available as
nation-based files while others are available only as state-based files. This file
depicts the shape of the United States clipped back to a generalized coastline. This
nation layer covers the extent of the fifty states, the District of Columbia, Puerto
Rico, and each of the Island Areas (American Samoa, the Commonwealth of the Northern
Mariana Islands, Guam, and the U.S. Virgin Islands) when scale
appropriate.
Complete Metadata
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|---|---|
| accessLevel | non-public |
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| description | The 2016 cartographic boundary shapefiles are simplified representations of selected geographic areas from the U.S. Census Bureau's Master Address File / Topologically Integrated Geographic Encoding and Referencing (MAF/TIGER) Database (MTDB). These boundary files are specifically designed for small-scale thematic mapping. When possible, generalization is performed with the intent to maintain the hierarchical relationships among geographies and to maintain the alignment of geographies within a file set for a given year. Geographic areas may not align with the same areas from another year. Some geographies are available as nation-based files while others are available only as state-based files. This file depicts the shape of the United States clipped back to a generalized coastline. This nation layer covers the extent of the fifty states, the District of Columbia, Puerto Rico, and each of the Island Areas (American Samoa, the Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands, Guam, and the U.S. Virgin Islands) when scale appropriate. |
| distribution |
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|
| identifier | cb_2016_us_nation_20m.shp.iso.xml |
| issued | 2017-03-01T00:00:00.000+00:00 |
| keyword |
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"Boundaries",
"2016",
"SHP",
"Cartographic Boundary",
"Generalized",
"United States",
"United States",
"US"
]
|
| language |
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|
| license | https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/ |
| modified | 2017-03-01T00:00:00.000+00:00 |
| publisher |
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| spatial | 179.773922,17.913769,-179.174265,71.352561 |
| temporal | 2017-03-01T00:00:00+00:00/2017-03-01T00:00:00+00:00 |
| title | 2016 Cartographic Boundary File, United States, 1:20,000,000 |
