ABSTRACT
The U.S. Bureau of the Census has a long history of innovation in data collection and processing techniques. Staff in the Geography Division of the Census Bureau are
orchestrating the development of a major new computer system that will extend this impressive history. The Topologically Integrated Geographic Encoding and
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Referencing (TIGER) system will automate the mapping and related geographic activities required to support the census and survey programs of the Census Bureau for years to come, starting with the 1990 Decennial Census (Bounpane, 1985).
