'''Dual Independent Map Encoding''' ('''DIME''') is an [[encoding]] scheme developed by the [[United States Census Bureau|US Bureau of the Census]] for efficiently storing [[geography|geographical]] data. The committecommittee 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 of [[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 Geocoding and Referencing]] (TIGER) in [[1990]].
