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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 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 Geographic Encoding and Referencing]] (TIGER) in [[1990]].

== See also ==