Please Review the Information on the Census TIGER 2002 page. Be able to answer the following questions:

• What does T.I.G.E.R. stand for?
• What kind of GIS data are in the TIGER files?
• What "attributes" are associated with TIGER?
• How would you get TIGER data into a GIS such as ArcGIS?

STEPS in Converting a TIGER file to a Coverage in ArcGIS and "Workstation Arc/Info"

• Run ARC  ("Workstation Arc/Info" in ArcGIS 9)
• use the command: TIGERARC TGR06nnn.xx   cover_name to import the line features. [ aka "prefix"]
• use the command: BUILD cover_name LINES to build line topology for the coverage.

• Run ArcMap and ADD the coverage to the map.
• ADD the TABLE named "cover_name.ACODE" to the project (Note: it MAY be an INFO file).
• Find the corresponding TIGER_Line_ID fields in the two tables and Join the "ACODE" file with the arc-attribute file.
• Use the Query Tools  to select all ROADS  [ road features have CFCC values between A01 and A99 ]
• You may want to "CLIP" the roads to the extent of the other Layers. [TIGER lines come from for an entire county!]
• Convert_to_Shapefile option to save the selected records into an ArcView Shapefile format.
• Make a MAP using the NEW TIGER Roads shapefile.