TIGERweb
About TIGERweb
- TIGERweb is a set of web-based Geography Division applications and services that allow users to view and query boundaries and attribute information for geographic entities that are stored in the MAF/TIGER database.
- The TIGERweb does not include demographic data, but it contains geographic entity codes that can be linked to the Census Bureau’s demographic data, available on American FactFinder (Note: This link will open a new browser window.)
Link to TIGERweb Geographic Entities Descriptions.
Link to TIGERweb Metadata -- coming soon.
TIGERweb Viewer
TIGERweb Viewer is a new web-based tool that allows users to visualize Census geography. The geographic data includes legal and statistical geography as well as the roads, railroads, and water layers in the TIGER database. The TIGERweb Viewer is built on ArcGIS Template Viewer 2.2 using Microsoft Silverlight.
View the following video for an introduction to the TIGERweb Viewer:
Launch TIGERweb Viewer (beta)
(Note: This link will open a new browser window.)
TIGERweb WMS
TIGER data on the web is released following the Open Geospatial Consortium, Inc. (OGC) Web Map Service (WMS) standard. Users that have a client that supports the WMS standard may access the TIGERweb service using the following URL:
//tigerweb.geo.census.gov/ArcGIS/services/tigerWMS/MapServer/WMSServer
TIGERweb Tabular Data Files
TIGERweb Nation-Based and State-Based tabular data files are also available.