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Do the TIGER/Line Shapefiles contain latitude and longitude coordinate information for the features they contain?

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Do the TIGER/Line Shapefiles contain latitude and longitude coordinate information for the features they contain?

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The coordinate information for the features contained in the shapefiles is not listed in the record layout, but is instead imbedded into the .shp portion of the shapefile itself.

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The coordinate information for the features contained in the shapefiles is not listed in the attribute tables, but is instead imbedded into the .shp portion of the shapefile itself.