Description from the US Census Bureau: "The Census Bureau includes landmarks such as military installations in the MAF/TIGER database for locating special features and to help enumerators during field operations. The Census Bureau adds landmark features to the database on an as-needed basis and does not attempt to ensure that all instances of a particular feature are included. For additional information about area landmarks, please see Section 3.12, Landmarks (Area and Point)."
military(year = NULL, ...)
the data year (defaults to 2020).
arguments to be passed to the underlying `load_tiger` function, which is not exported.
Options include class
, which can be set to "sf"
(the default) or "sp"
to
request sf or sp class objects, and refresh
, which specifies whether or
not to re-download shapefiles (defaults to FALSE
).
This file does not include the three point landmarks identified as military installation features in the MAF/TIGER database. These point landmarks are included in the point landmark shapefile. Although almost all military installations have assigned 8-character National Standard (GNIS) codes, the Census Bureau has not loaded most of this data into the MAF/TIGER database. The 2020 military shapefiles contain few values in the ANSICODE field.
https://www2.census.gov/geo/pdfs/maps-data/data/tiger/tgrshp2020/TGRSHP2020_TechDoc_Ch3.pdf