Census bureau tiger line shapefiles Department of Commerce Gina Raimondo, Secretary U. N : N . The Census Bureau made additional improvements to TIGER/Line features after 2008, so the 2008 TIGER/Line-based files are not consistently comparable with 2010 and later TIGER/Line files. gov, enabling users to visualize census tabular data as a map. All Census Bureau generated shapefiles are in Global Coordinate System North American Datum of 1983 (GCS NAD83). The All Lines layer for each county contains streets, railroads, and hydrography. TIGER stands for the Topologically Integrated Geographic Encoding and Referencing system and represents the U. These features can be used for creating base maps. shp) and database files (. They are extracts of selected geographic and cartographic information from the U. bmeypedimrsoplyegnzfwpshiaxeztzkqanrpapfqshowkncrqheoqlzuwjpvict