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Article: Census Bureau issues revised modernization RFP. (Federal Connection).
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- GEO World
- Article date:
- April 1, 2002
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According to the U.S. Census Bureau, preparations for Census 2000 highlighted the need to improve and update its aging Master Address File (MAF) and associated Topologically Integrated Geographic Encoding and Referencing (TIGER) database, which together form a mapping system of the United States and its territorial possessions that will be used for the 2010 census.
MAF is intended to provide the bureau with a complete and current list of all addresses and locations where people live or could live as well as the addresses or locations where people work or could work. TIGER was developed to support the decennial census and other Census Bureau statistical programs.