Demographic Data - TIGER/Line Shapefile, 2010, 2010 county, Miami-Dade County, FL, 2010 Census Block County-based
Dataset Identification:
Resource Abstract:
The TIGER/Line Files are shapefiles and related database files (.dbf) that are an extract of selected geographic and cartographic
information from the U.S. Census Bureau's Master Address File / Topologically Integrated Geographic Encoding and Referencing
(MAF/TIGER) Database (MTDB). The MTDB represents a seamless national file with no overlaps or gaps between parts, however,
each TIGER/Line File is designed to stand alone as an independent data set, or they can be combined to cover the entire nation.
Census Blocks are statistical areas bounded on all sides by visible features, such as streets, roads, streams, and railroad
tracks, and/or by nonvisible boundaries such as city, town, township, and county limits, and short line-of-sight extensions
of streets and roads. Census blocks are relatively small in area; for example, a block in a city bounded by streets. However,
census blocks in remote areas are often large and irregular and may even be many square miles in area. A common misunderstanding
is that data users think census blocks are used geographically to build all other census geographic areas, rather all other
census geographic areas are updated and then used as the primary constraints, along with roads and water features, to delineate
the tabulation blocks. As a result, all 2010 Census blocks nest within every other 2010 Census geographic area, so that Census
Bureau statistical data can be tabulated at the block level and aggregated up to the appropriate geographic areas. Census
blocks cover all territory in the United States, Puerto Rico, and the Island Areas (American Samoa, Guam, the Commonwealth
of the Northern Mariana Islands, and the U.S. Virgin Islands). Blocks are the smallest geographic areas for which the Census
Bureau publishes data from the decennial census. A block may consist of one or more faces. This census data layer has been
imported into the Miami-Dade County ArcSDE infrastructure and re-projected to: Projected Coordinate System: NAD_1983_StatePlane_Florida_East_FIPS_0901_Feet
Projection: Transverse_Mercator False_Easting: 656166.66666667 False_Northing: 0.00000000 Central_Meridian: -81.00000000 Scale_Factor:
0.99994118 Latitude_Of_Origin: 24.33333333 Linear Unit: Foot_US The boundaries have been aligned to Miami-Dade County base
data where they have been found to NOT be within +/- 10 ft. Population figures have been appended to the end of the feature
classes attribute table: Pop2010, HU2010, HISPAN, WHITENH, BLACKNH, AMERINDIANNH, ASIANNH, HAWIANNH, OTHERNH, and MULTIRACE.
Definitions can be found in the census documentation.
Citation
Title Demographic Data - TIGER/Line Shapefile, 2010, 2010 county, Miami-Dade County, FL, 2010 Census Block County-based
publication Date
2014-01-01
presentationForm
mapDigital
other Citation Details
gis-inventory-metadata-6401-25227.xml
cited responsible party
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publisher
organisation Name
Miami-Dade County Government
Contact information
Address
, Miami, FL
cited responsible party
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originator
organisation Name
U.S. Department of Commerce, U.S. Census Bureau, Geography Division
In order for others to use the information in the Census MAF/TIGER database in a geographic information system (GIS) or for
other geographic applications, the Census Bureau releases to the public extracts of the database in the form of TIGER/Line
Shapefiles. Additional information on the description of the data and its uses can be obtained from the pl94-171.pdf stored
in geodatabaseStandardsCensus2010. This metadata was auto-generated through the NSGIC GIS Inventory (https://www.gisinventory.net)
and does not represent all information about the dataset, including dataset purpose. Users are strongly encouraged to access
the original metadata record if documented, below, under 'Distribution Information'.
Resource language:
eng; USA
Resource progress code:
completed
Resource Maintenance Information
maintenance or update frequency:
TIGER/LINE SHAPEFILES ARE EXTRACTED FROM THE CENSUS MAF/TIGER DATABASE. NO CHANGES OR UPDATES WILL BE MADE TO THIS VERSION
OF T
Constraints on resource usage:
Constraints
Use limitation statement:
Although these data have been processed successfully on a computer system by the data steward, no warranty either expressed
or implied is made regarding the utility of the data on any system, nor shall this notice generated by the NSGIC GIS Inventory
System or the act of distribution constitute any such warranty. The data steward may have additional liability information
associated with delivery or distribution of this product.
Constraints on resource usage:
Legal Constraints
use constraint:
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Other constraints
Use Constraints: The TIGER/Line Shapefile products are not copyrighted however TIGER/Line and Census TIGER are registered
trademarks of the U.S. Census Bureau. These products are free to use in a product or publication, however acknowledgement
must be given to the U.S. Census Bureau as the source. The boundary information in the TIGER/Line Shapefiles are for statistical
data collection and tabulation purposes only; their depiction and designation for statistical purposes does not constitute
a determination of jurisdictional authority or rights of ownership or entitlement and they are not legal land descriptions.Coordinates
in the TIGER/Line shapefiles have six implied decimal places, but the positional accuracy of these coordinates is not as great
as the six decimal places suggest.
notes: This metadata was automatically generated from the FGDC Content Standards for Digital Geospatial Metadata standard (version
FGDC-STD-001-1998) using the 2012-06-20T17:21:00 version of the FGDC RSE to ISO 19115-2 transform.
notes: Last Metadata Review Date: 2014-12-09
Metadata Constraints
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Access Constraints
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Other constraints
Metadata Use Constraints: This metadata record was generated within the NSGIC GIS Inventory (https://www.gisinventory.net)
and may include information imported from an original metadata record. The content has been standardized to facilitate data
discovery and may not reflect the actual parameters (scale, geographic location, attributes, etc.) of the data resource being
described. Users are strongly encouraged to access the original metadata record if documented, above, under 'Distribution
Information'.
Metadata contact
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pointOfContact
organisation Name
NSGIC GIS Inventory
Contact information
Telephone
Voice (443) 640-1075
Address
9 Newport Drive, Suite 200, Forest Hill, MD, 21050
Country USA