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        <origin>Peg Rawson, National Atlas of the United States</origin>
        <title>cd v. 114</title>
        <geoform>vector digital data</geoform>
        <pubinfo>
          <pubplace>1200 New Jersey Ave. SE, Washington, DC, 20590</pubplace>
          <publish>Office of the Assistant Secretary for Research and Technology/Bureau of Transportation Statistics</publish>
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    <descript>
      <abstract>The TIGER/Line shapefiles and related database files (.dbf) are an extract of selected geographic and cartographic information from the U.S. Census Bureau's Master Address File / Topologically Integrated Geographic Encoding and Referencing (MAF/TIGER) Database (MTDB). The MTDB represents a seamless national file with no overlaps or gaps between parts, however, each TIGER/Line shapefile is designed to stand alone as an independent data set, or they can be combined to cover the entire nation. Congressional Districts are the 437 areas from which people are elected to the U.S. House of Representatives. After the apportionment of congressional seats among the States based on census population counts, each State is responsible for establishing congressional districts for the purpose of electing representatives. Each congressional district is to be as equal in population to all other congressional districts in a State as practicable. The congressional districts for the 114th Congress (January 2015 to 2017) are the second Congressional Districts based on 2010 Census data. The TIGER/Line shapefiles for the District of Columbia, Puerto Rico, and the Island Areas (American Samoa, Guam, the Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands, and the U.S. Virgin Islands) each contain a single record for the non-voting delegate district in these areas. The boundaries of all other congressional districts are provided to the Census Bureau through the Redistricting Data Program (RDP).</abstract>
      <purpose>In order for others to use the information in the Census MAF/TIGER database in a geographic information system (GIS) or for other geographic applications, the Census Bureau releases to the public extracts of the database in the form of TIGER/Line Shapefiles.</purpose>
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    <keywords>
      <theme>
        <themekt>ISO 19115 Topic Categories</themekt>
        <themekey>boundaries</themekey>
      </theme>
      <temporal>
        <tempkt>None</tempkt>
        <tempkey>2013</tempkey>
        <tempkey>2014</tempkey>
        <tempkey>2015</tempkey>
      </temporal>
    </keywords>
    <accconst>None</accconst>
    <useconst>The TIGER/Line Shapefile products are not copyrighted however TIGER/Line and Census TIGER are registered trademarks of the U.S. Census Bureau. These products are free to use in a product or publication, however acknowledgement must be given to the U.S. Census Bureau as the source. The boundary information in the TIGER/Line Shapefiles are for statistical data collection and tabulation purposes only; their depiction and designation for statistical purposes does not constitute a determination of jurisdictional authority or rights of ownership or entitlement and they are not legal land descriptions.Coordinates in the TIGER/Line shapefiles have six implied decimal places, but the positional accuracy of these coordinates is not as great as the six decimal places suggest.</useconst>
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          <cntorg>National Atlas of the United States</cntorg>
          <cntper>Peg Rawson</cntper>
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          <addrtype>unknown</addrtype>
          <address>12201 Sunrise Valley Drive</address>
          <city>Reston</city>
          <state>Virginia</state>
          <postal>20192</postal>
        </cntaddr>
        <cntvoice>703-648-4183</cntvoice>
        <cntemail>atlasmail@usgs.gov</cntemail>
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    <ptcontac>
      <cntinfo>
        <cntorgp>
          <cntorg>Office of the Assistant Secretary for Research and Technology/Bureau of Transportation Statistics</cntorg>
          <cntper>National Transportation Atlas Databases (NTAD) 2015</cntper>
        </cntorgp>
        <cntpos>Geospatial Information Systems</cntpos>
        <cntaddr>
          <addrtype>unknown</addrtype>
          <address>1200 New Jersey Ave. SE</address>
          <city>Washington</city>
          <state>DC</state>
          <postal>20590</postal>
        </cntaddr>
        <cntvoice>202-366-DATA</cntvoice>
        <cntemail>answers@BTS.gov</cntemail>
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        <enttypd>113th Congressional District National</enttypd>
        <enttypds>U.S. Census Bureau</enttypds>
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        <attrdefs>Esri</attrdefs>
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          <udom>Sequential unique whole numbers that are automatically generated.</udom>
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        <attrlabl>Shape</attrlabl>
        <attrdef>Feature geometry.</attrdef>
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          <udom>Coordinates defining the features.</udom>
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        <attrdef>Congressional District Code</attrdef>
        <attrdefs>U.S. Bureau of the Census (BOC)</attrdefs>
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        <attrdef>Name the congress person that represents the congressional district</attrdef>
        <attrdefs>Techpolitics</attrdefs>
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        <attrlabl>PARTY</attrlabl>
        <attrdef>The party affiliation</attrdef>
        <attrdefs>Techpolitics</attrdefs>
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        <attrlabl>STATE</attrlabl>
        <attrdef>US Postal Service State Abbreviation</attrdef>
        <attrdefs>U.S. Bureau of the Census (BOC)</attrdefs>
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            <codesetn>Official US Postal Service State Abbreviations</codesetn>
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        <attrlabl>STFIPS</attrlabl>
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        <attrdefs>OST-R/BTS</attrdefs>
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            <codesets>National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST)</codesets>
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      <cntinfo>
        <cntorgp>
          <cntorg>Office of the Assistant Secretary for Research and Technology/Bureau of Transportation Statistics</cntorg>
          <cntper>National Transportation Atlas Databases (NTAD) 2015</cntper>
        </cntorgp>
        <cntpos>Geospatial Information Systems</cntpos>
        <cntaddr>
          <addrtype>unknown</addrtype>
          <address>1200 New Jersey Ave. SE</address>
          <city>Washington</city>
          <state>DC</state>
          <postal>20590</postal>
        </cntaddr>
        <cntvoice>202-366-DATA</cntvoice>
        <cntemail>answers@BTS.gov</cntemail>
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    <distliab>See access and use constraints information.</distliab>
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          <formvern>10.1</formvern>
          <filedec>No compression applied. However, if using digital transfer online option, note access instructions.</filedec>
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      </digform>
      <fees>None</fees>
      <ordering>Call (202-366-DATA), or E-mail (answers@bts.gov) BTS to request the National Transportation Atlas Databases (NTAD) 2015 DVD. The NTAD DVD can be ordered from the online bookstore at www.bts.gov. Individual datasets from the NTAD can also be downloaded from the Office of Geospatial Information Systems website at http://www.bts.gov/programs/geographic_information_services/.</ordering>
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    <metd>20150610</metd>
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      <cntinfo>
        <cntorgp>
          <cntorg>National Atlas of the United States</cntorg>
          <cntper>Peg Rawson</cntper>
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        <cntaddr>
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          <address>12201 Sunrise Valley Drive</address>
          <city>Reston</city>
          <state>Virginia</state>
          <postal>20192</postal>
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        <cntvoice>703-648-4183</cntvoice>
        <cntemail>atlasmail@usgs.gov</cntemail>
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    <metstdn>FGDC Content Standard for Digital Geospatial Metadata</metstdn>
    <metstdv>FGDC-STD-001-1998</metstdv>
    <mettc>local time</mettc>
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