Geography Tables
Overview
Data is joinable across all Cybersyn products that have a GEO_ID. Data Commons’ unique geographic identifiers were used to form the core of the GEOGRAPHY_INDEX and related tables below. Cybersyn expanded geographic coverage using data from Statistics Canada and the US Census Bureau. Boundaries, in particular, are from these two sources.
Our goal is to create a single, unified schema across public and proprietary datasets. The Cybersyn schema aims to strike a balance between flexibility to accommodate arbitrarily shaped data along with consistency in core tables. Refer to Cybersyn Concepts for more details.
Notes
| Geography Index | Cybersyn's unified geographic entity index, joinable to all tables, providing unique geographic identifiers with associated names, levels, and ISO codes for various US geographies. |
| Geography Characteristics | Repository of geography characteristics, including GEOJSON coordinates, WKT coordinates, state abbreviations, and FIPS codes. |
| Geography Relationships | Relationships between geographic entities of differing levels, including overlaps and contains relationships, using Cybersyn's GEO_IDs. |
| Geography Hierarchy | Hierarchical relationships between geographic entities, such as countries, states, and counties. |
| Geography Overlaps | Geographic relationships between overlapping regions, such as counties and zip codes, identified by unique GEO_IDs. |
Cybersyn Products
The geography tables exist in all Cybersyn listings.