Start Date
25-11-1988 9:30 AM
End Date
25-11-1988 12:00 PM
Description
At a time when locationally oriented lnformation sharing stirs the imagination, the Census Bureau has automated a fundamentally new cartograohic and geographic system to support the data collection, tabulation, and dissemination needs of the 1990 Oecennial Census of Population and Housing, and future future statistical programs of the United States. If it could talk (which is about the only thing it can't do) the svstem would answer to the name "TIGER," not acrimoniously like the noncuddly carnivore, but acronymically, as in "Topologically Integrated Geographic Encoding and Referencing" System. TIGER constitutes, among other things, a unique, new file structure with a data base that incorporates theories of topology (the vital "T"), graph theory, and associated fields of mathematics. Result is a disciplined, mathematical description of the geographic structure of the entire United States, containing within it every street and road, the name of each, the range of addresses located along each section of every street in the 345 largest urban areas of the country, all railroads and names of their operating companies, all bodies of water and their names, together with boundaries, names, and numeric codes for geographic codes used for 1990 tabulations.
Publication Date
November 1988
Recommended Citation
Behrens, John O. Esq., "The property tax: A relevant revenue tool with the strength of a TIGER" (1988). International Research Symposium. 15.
https://researchexchange.iaao.org/irs/irs88/sessions/15
The property tax: A relevant revenue tool with the strength of a TIGER
At a time when locationally oriented lnformation sharing stirs the imagination, the Census Bureau has automated a fundamentally new cartograohic and geographic system to support the data collection, tabulation, and dissemination needs of the 1990 Oecennial Census of Population and Housing, and future future statistical programs of the United States. If it could talk (which is about the only thing it can't do) the svstem would answer to the name "TIGER," not acrimoniously like the noncuddly carnivore, but acronymically, as in "Topologically Integrated Geographic Encoding and Referencing" System. TIGER constitutes, among other things, a unique, new file structure with a data base that incorporates theories of topology (the vital "T"), graph theory, and associated fields of mathematics. Result is a disciplined, mathematical description of the geographic structure of the entire United States, containing within it every street and road, the name of each, the range of addresses located along each section of every street in the 345 largest urban areas of the country, all railroads and names of their operating companies, all bodies of water and their names, together with boundaries, names, and numeric codes for geographic codes used for 1990 tabulations.