2008 TIGER/Line Shapefiles Technical Documentation


Acknowledgments


The 2008 TIGER/Line(R) Shapefiles Technical Documentation was produced by the Geography 
Division under the guidance of Timothy Trainor, Assistant Division Chief for Geocartographic 
Products and Criteria.

The 2008 TIGER/Line(R) Shapefiles Technical Documentation and specifications for the 2008 
TIGER/Line Shapefiles were compiled by staff in the Geographic Products Branch under the 
guidance of Andrea Johnson, Branch Chief, with special thanks to staff in the Geographic 
Standards and Criteria Branch, Linear Features Branch, Geographic Areas Branch, 
National/State Geographic Partnership Branch, and Spatial Products Software Branch for their 
input.

Programming for this version of the TIGER/Line(R) Shapefiles was done by Jay Spurlin and 
Lingling Guo of the Spatial Products Software Branch under the guidance of Ricardo Ruiz, 
Branch Chief.  Programming related to the website was done by staff in the Spatial Products 
Software Branch, the Workflow Control Branch, and the Technology Applications Branch of the 
Systems Support Division.  Special thanks to the Core Update Software Branch and Geographic 
Process and Quality Management Branch of the Geography Division for their role in the quality 
control.