<div dir="ltr">FYI!<div><br></div><div><b style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:12.7272720336914px">TIGER Turns 25, Added to TNM:</b><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:12.7272720336914px"> In conjunction with the 25</span><sup style="font-family:arial,sans-serif">th</sup><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:12.7272720336914px"> anniversary of the Topologically Integrated Geographic Encoding and Referencing (</span><a href="https://www.census.gov/geo/maps-data/data/tiger.html" target="_blank" style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:12.7272720336914px">TIGER</a><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:12.7272720336914px">) database, the U.S. </span><a href="https://www.census.gov/" target="_blank" style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:12.7272720336914px">Census Bureau</a><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:12.7272720336914px"> and the USGS are issuing a joint release to announce that </span><a href="http://nationalmap.gov/viewer.html" target="_blank" style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:12.7272720336914px">The National Map Viewer</a><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:12.7272720336914px"> and </span><a href="http://nationalmap.gov/ustopo/index.html" target="_blank" style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:12.7272720336914px">US Topo</a><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:12.7272720336914px"> maps will use TIGER data starting in 2015. The TIGER roads layer, which consists of all roads in the US, joins the TIGER governmental unit boundaries layer as an authoritative source of current, accurate and high-quality geospatial data for reliable map products. </span><a href="http://1.usa.gov/1F4h7UV" target="_blank" style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:12.7272720336914px">http://1.usa.gov/1F4h7UV</a><br clear="all"><div><br></div>-- <br><div class="gmail_signature"><div dir="ltr">Tom Carlson, PhD, GISP<div><span style="font-size:12.6666669845581px">Geographer - Geospatial Liaison</span><div>US Geological Survey</div><div>934 Broadway, Suite 300</div><div>Tacoma, WA 98402</div><div>253.552.1682 Office</div></div><div><br></div><div><b><a href="http://nationalmap.gov" target="_blank">The National Map</a> -  Your Source for Topographic Information<img src="http://nationalmap.gov/images/tnm_green_flat.jpg"></b></div><div><br></div></div></div>
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