TIGER Roads
Requirement:
Roughly estimate route miles of potential deployments
what is inside the data:
We have linestrings with those attributes:
linearid: primary id, used by ither TIGER productfullname: road name, humane-readablerttyp: route type code, type of road.
| Route Type Code | Route Type Code Description |
|---|---|
| C | County |
| I | Interstate |
| M | Common Name |
| O | Other |
| S | State recognized |
| U | U.S. |
mtfcc: MAF/TIGER Feature Class Codes, example, S1400 (Local Neighborhood Road, Rural Road, City Street)
Classes of Roads according to TIGER/line census
TIGER: Topologically Integrated Geographic Encoding and Referencing
| mtfcc | Features |
|---|---|
| “S1100” | Primary Road |
| “S1200” | Secondary Road |
| “S1400” | Local Neighborhood Road, Rural Road, City Street |
| “S1500” | Vehicular Trail (4WD) |
| “S1630” | Ramp |
| “S1640” | Service Drive usually along a limited access highway |
| “S1710” | Walkway/Pedestrian Trail |
| “S1720” | Stairway |
| “S1730” | Alley |
| “S1740” | Private Road for service vehicles (logging, oil fields, ranches, etc.) |
| “S1750” | Internal U.S. Census Bureau use |
| “S1780” | Parking Lot Road |
| “S1810” | Winter Trail |
| “S1820” | Bike Path or Trail |
| “S1830” | Bridle Path |
Should this information provided and how?
We should probably not keep the bridle paths?
Should it be provided at block level: ie an estimate route miles?
How the user will interact with it?
Resources
https://www2.census.gov/geo/pdfs/reference/mtfccs2020.pdf
https://www.census.gov/library/reference/code-lists/route-type-codes.html