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TIGER/Line Shapefiles
The Working with TIGER/Line Shapefiles series is an overview of how to access and use the US Census Bureau's TIGER/Line Shapefiles. Each section is a short how-to guide for accessing and using the TIGER/Line Shapefiles as well as joining data from the US Census Bureau to the TIGER/Line Shapefiles.
- Downloading TIGER/Line Shapefiles [PDF]
- Opening TIGER/Line Shapefiles into ArcGIS [PDF]
- Downloading Data for the 2010 Census from the New American FactFinder to use with TIGER/Line Shapefiles [PDF]
- Joining Census Data to TIGER/Line Shapefiles
[PDF]
- Creating a Thematic Map [PDF]
For a note on using data from the new American FactFinder, see 2010 TIGER/Line Shapefiles User Note 15.
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