TIGER/Line Shapefile, 2014, Series Information File for the Point Landmark State-based Shapefiles
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the census bureau includes landmarks in the mtdb for locating special features and to help enumerators during field operations some of the more common landmark types include area landmarks such as airports cemeteries parks mountain peaks summits schools and churches and other religious institutions the census bureau has added landmark features to mtdb on an as needed basis and made no attempt to ensure that all instances of a particular feature were included the presence or absence of a landmark such as a hospital or prison does not mean that the living quarters associated with that landmark were geocoded to that census tabulation block or excluded from the census enumeration
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the census bureau includes landmarks in the mtdb for locating special features and to help enumerators during field operations some of the more common landmark types include area landmarks such as airports cemeteries parks mountain peaks summits schools and churches and other religious institutions the census bureau has added landmark features to mtdb on an as needed basis and made no attempt to ensure that all instances of a particular feature were included the presence or absence of a landmark such as a hospital or prison does not mean that the living quarters associated with that landmark were geocoded to that census tabulation block or excluded from the census enumeration
Key concepts: Shapefile, Landmark, Census, Geocoding, Geography, Cartography, Line (geometry), Feature (linguistics)