Why did the Census Bureau switch from CFCCs to MTFCCs?
The switch from CFCCs to MTFCCs was intended to streamline our road classification system. It was often difficult to accurately maintain road feature classification using CFCCs. Definitions were vague and it was often hard to determine which classification best suited a particular feature. Features were not always classified consistently. To eliminate these problems, the classification system has been restructured and simplified. For example, CFCCs A2 and A3 were combined into MTFCC S1200. 31. It appears that some of the features in my county are distorted, in that some features occasionally appear to snap to a point away from the feature line and then return to the line. Is this a known issue, and if so, when will it be corrected? Approximately 1,000 counties in the 2008 release of the TIGER/Line Shapefiles include some new features that are distorted. These features appear to be pulled away from their position to a point and return to their correct location forming a distorted edge.
