Positional Accuracy of TIGER 2000 and 2009 Road Networks

نویسندگان

  • Paul A. Zandbergen
  • Drew A. Ignizio
  • Kathryn E. Lenzer
چکیده

The Topologically Integrated Geographic Encoding and Referencing (TIGER) data are an essential part of the US Census and represent a critical element in the nation’s spatial data infrastructure. TIGER data for the year 2000, however, are of limited positional accuracy and were deemed of insufficient quality to support the 2010 Census. In response the US Census Bureau embarked on the MAF/TIGER Accuracy Improvement Project (MTAIP) in an effort to improve the positional accuracy of the database, modernize the data processing environment and improve cooperation with partner agencies. Improved TIGER data were released for the entire US just before the 2010 Census. The current study characterizes the positional accuracy of the TIGER 2009 data compared with the TIGER 2000 data based on selected road intersections. Three US counties were identified as study areas and in each county 100 urban and 100 rural sample locations were selected. Features in the TIGER 2000 and 2009 data were compared with reference locations derived from high resolution natural color orthoimagery. Results indicate that TIGER 2009 data are much improved in terms of positional accuracy compared with the TIGER 2000 data, by at least one order of magnitude across urban and rural areas in all three counties for most accuracy metrics. TIGER 2009 is consistently more accurate in urban areas compared with rural areas, by a factor of at least two for most accuracy metrics. Despite the substantial improvement in positional accuracy, large positional errors of greater than 10 m are relatively common in the TIGER 2009 data, in most cases representing remnant segments of minor roads from older versions of the TIGER data. As a result, based on the US Census Bureau’s suggested accuracy Address for correspondence: Paul A. Zandbergen, Department of Geography, University of New Mexico, Bandelier West Room 111, MSC01 1110, Albuquerque, NM 87131, USA. E-mail: [email protected] Transactions in GIS, 2011, 15(4): 495–519 © 2011 Blackwell Publishing Ltd doi: 10.1111/j.1467-9671.2011.01277.x metric, the TIGER 2009 data meet the accuracy expectation of 7.6 m for two of the three urban areas but for none of the three rural areas. The suggested metric is based on the National Standard for Spatial Data Accuracy (NSSDA) protocol and was found to be very sensitive to the presence of a small number of very large errors. This presents challenges during attempts to characterize the accuracy of TIGER data or other spatial data using this protocol.

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عنوان ژورنال:
  • Trans. GIS

دوره 15  شماره 

صفحات  -

تاریخ انتشار 2011