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{{Short description|Encoding scheme for storing geographical data}}
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'''Dual Independent Map Encoding''' ('''DIME''') is an [[code|encoding]] scheme developed by the [[United States Census Bureau|US Bureau of the Census]] for efficiently storing [[geography|geographical]] data. The committee behind the case study that eventually resulted in DIME was established in 1965, although the term ''DIME'' itself was first coined by George Farnsworth in August 1967. The [[file format]] developed for storing the DIME-encoded data was known as [[Geographic Base Files]] (GBF). The Census Bureau replaced the data format with [[Topologically Integrated Geographic Encoding and Referencing]] (TIGER) in 1990.
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== External links ==
*[https://web.archive.org/web/20120722014135/http://www.ncgia.buffalo.edu/gishist/DIME_story.html A short story of DIME]
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[[Category:GIS file formats]]
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