TIGERweb

TIGERweb Application

The TIGERweb web-based application allows the users to visualize our TIGER(Topologically Integrated Geographic Encoding and Referencing database) data. The application allows users to select features and view their attributes, to search for features by name or geocode, and to identify features by selecting them from a map. The TIGERweb application is a simple way to view our TIGER data without having to download the data.

The TIGERweb application offers the ability to view:

• Linear features
• Roads, highways, streets
• Railroads
• Rivers, streams, and other “single-line” drainage
• Area water
• Rivers, lakes, and glaciers
• Boundaries for legal and statistical geographic entities

Because geographic and locational context and relationships are important, the TIGERweb application determines which geographic entities and features may be visible based on map scale.

Users have the capability to turn on and off linear features and geographic entities by type. This allows users to limit the amount of data on the map by selecting only the features and entity types they would like to see.

View the following video for an introduction to the TIGERweb application: