TIGER: US Census Roads

  • The TIGER/2016/Roads dataset provides road segment data for the United States, D.C., Puerto Rico, and Island Areas from the 2016 US Census Bureau release.

  • This dataset contains over 19 million line features, each representing a navigable road segment.

  • Road features include attributes like name, priority code (e.g., primary, secondary), and route type.

  • Users should cite the US Census Bureau when using this data in reports or publications.

  • The dataset is accessible through Earth Engine for analysis and visualization.
TIGER/2016/Roads
Dataset Availability
2016-01-01T00:00:00Z–2017-01-02T00:00:00Z
Dataset Provider
Earth Engine Snippet
FeatureCollection
ee.FeatureCollection("TIGER/2016/Roads")
FeatureView
ui.Map.FeatureViewLayer("TIGER/2016/Roads_FeatureView")
Tags
census infrastructure-boundaries roads table tiger us

Description

This United States Census Bureau TIGER dataset contains all road segments from the 2016 release, containing more than 19 million individual line features covering the United States, the District of Columbia, Puerto Rico, and the Island Areas. Each feature represents a road segment geometry (a single navigable linear path connected to at least one intersection).

For full technical details on all TIGER 2016 products, see the TIGER technical documentation.

Table Schema

Table Schema

Name Type Description
fullname STRING

A human-readable road name
linearid STRING

The primary identifier used to refer to this row in other TIGER products
mtfcc STRING

The road priority code, representing, e.g., primary, second, local, etc.
rttyp STRING

The route type code,

Terms of Use

Terms of Use

The U.S. Census Bureau offers some of its public data in machine-readable format via an Application Programming Interface (API). All of the content, documentation, code and related materials made available through the API are subject to these terms and conditions.

Citations

Citations:

  • For the creation of any reports, publications, new data sets, derived products, or services resulting from the data set, users should cite the US Census Bureau.

Explore with Earth Engine

Code Editor (JavaScript)

var dataset = ee.FeatureCollection('TIGER/2016/Roads');
var roads = dataset.style({color: '#4285F4', width: 1});
Map.setCenter(-73.99172, 40.74101, 12);
Map.addLayer(roads, {}, 'TIGER/2016/Roads');
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Visualize as a FeatureView

A FeatureView is a view-only, accelerated representation of a FeatureCollection. For more details, visit the FeatureView documentation.

Code Editor (JavaScript)

var fvLayer = ui.Map.FeatureViewLayer('TIGER/2016/Roads_FeatureView');

var visParams = {
  color: '4285f4'
};

fvLayer.setVisParams(visParams);
fvLayer.setName('US census roads');

Map.setCenter(-73.99172, 40.74101, 14);
Map.add(fvLayer);
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This United States Census Bureau TIGER dataset contains all road segments from the 2016 release, containing more than 19 million individual line features covering the United States, the District of Columbia, Puerto Rico, and the Island Areas. Each feature represents a road segment geometry (a single navigable linear path connected …
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