@mailwoman/tiger 10.3.0 → 10.4.0

package/lib/class-code.ts

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 /**
- * Defines the current class of a geographic entity.
+ * The MAF/TIGER Feature Class Code (MTFCC) of a geographic entity, as printed in
+ * TIGER/Line files, gazetteer files and other Census Bureau products.
  *
- * These codes can be found in the tiger/Line products, gazetteer files and other products.
+ * The definition on each member paraphrases the Census Bureau's MTFCC table
+ * at `https://www.census.gov/library/reference/code-lists/mt-feature-class-codes.html`.
+ * Read that table for the authoritative wording.
  *
- * @title MAF/tiger Feature Class Code
+ * @title MAF/TIGER Feature Class Code
  */
 export const TIGERClassCode = {
 	/**
-	 * A prominent elevation rising above the surrounding level of the Earth's surface.
+	 * A high point of land standing above the terrain around it.
 	 */
 	MountainPeakOrSummit: "C3022",
 
 	/**
-	 * An area of dry or relatively dry land surrounded by water or low wetland.
+	 * Dry or mostly dry land with water or low wetland on every side.
 	 *
-	 * (including archipelago, atoll, cay, hammock, hummock, isla, isle, key, moku and rock)
+	 * Covers archipelagos, atolls, cays, hammocks, hummocks, islas, isles, keys, mokus and rocks.
 	 */
 	Island: "C3023",
 
 	/**
-	 * An embankment flanking a stream or other flowing water feature to prevent overflow.
+	 * A raised bank along a stream or other flowing water that keeps it from overflowing.
 	 */
 	Levee: "C3024",
 
 	/**
-	 * A durable, permanent structure, extending into a body of water, built to guard a shoreline from
-	 * erosion, to form a guarded coastal marina/harbor, or to create stable channels for navigation.
+	 * A permanent structure built out into a body of water to keep a shore from eroding,
+	 * to enclose a sheltered marina or harbor, or to hold a navigation channel in place.
 	 *
-	 * Unlike piers and docks, water does not flow under it.
-	 * Alternatively referred to as a groyne, groin, seawall, or bulwark.
+	 * Water does not pass beneath it.
+	 * Water does pass beneath a pier or dock.
+	 *
+	 * Groins, seawalls and bulwarks belong to this class.
 	 */
 	JettyBreakwater: "C3025",
 
 	/**
-	 * An area from which commercial minerals are or were removed from the Earth.
-	 * Not including an oilfield or gas field.
+	 * A site where commercial minerals are or were extracted.
+	 * Oil and gas fields are excluded.
 	 */
 	QuarryOpenPitMine: "C3026",
 
 	/**
-	 * A barrier built across the course of a stream to impound water and/or control water flow.
+	 * A barrier across a stream that holds back water or regulates its flow.
 	 */
 	Dam: "C3027",
 
 	/**
-	 * An expanded paved area at the end of a street used by vehicles for turning around.
+	 * A widened paved turnaround at the end of a street.
 	 *
-	 * The placement of addressed structures located along the street may wrap
-	 * around the end of the cul-de-sac.
+	 * Addressed structures along the street can continue around the turnaround.
 	 */
 	CulDeSac: "C3061",
 
 	/**
-	 * A circular intersection allowing for continuous movement of traffic at the meeting
-	 * of roadways, when the circle is represented as a point.
+	 * A circular junction of roads with continuous traffic flow, recorded as a point.
 	 */
 	TrafficCircle: "C3062",
 
 	/**
-	 * A movable barrier across a road.
+	 * A barrier across a road that can be opened and closed.
 	 */
 	Check: "C3066",
 
 	/**
-	 * A structure or barrier where a fee is collected for using a road.
+	 * A structure or barrier at which drivers pay a fee to use a road.
 	 */
 	TollBooth: "C3067",
 
 	/**
-	 * A manmade structure, higher than its diameter, generally used for observation,
-	 * storage, or electronic transmission.
+	 * A built structure taller than its diameter, used for observation, storage or electronic transmission.
 	 */
 	Tower: "C3071",
 
 	/**
-	 * A manmade structure, higher than its diameter, used to transmit light
-	 * and possibly sound generally to aid in navigation.
+	 * A built structure taller than its diameter that emits light, and sometimes sound, as a navigation aid.
 	 */
 	LighthouseBeacon: "C3074",
 
 	/**
-	 * One or more manmade structures, used for liquid or gas storage or for distribution activities.
+	 * One or more built structures for storing or distributing liquid or gas.
 	 */
 	TankFarm: "C3075",
 
 	/**
-	 * A facility where power is generated from the wind.
+	 * A wind-power generating facility.
 	 */
 	WindmillFarm: "C3076",
 
 	/**
-	 * A facility where power is generated from the sun.
+	 * A solar-power generating facility.
 	 */
 	SolarFarm: "C3077",
 
 	/**
-	 * A manmade structure to educate, commemorate, or memorialize an event, person, or feature.
+	 * A built structure that commemorates an event, person or feature, or educates visitors about one.
 	 */
 	MonumentMemorial: "C3078",
 
 	/**
-	 * A locational marker or monument placed on or near a boundary line to preserve
-	 * and identify the location of the boundary line on the ground.
+	 * A marker placed on or beside a boundary line to fix and identify its position on the ground.
 	 */
 	BoundaryMonumentPoint: "C3079",
 
 	/**
-	 * A point on the ground whose position (horizontal or vertical) is known
-	 * and can be used as a base for additional survey work.
+	 * A ground point with a known horizontal or vertical position that further surveys can start from.
 	 */
 	SurveyControlPoint: "C3080",
 
 	/**
-	 * A point that identifies the location and name of a locality (e.g., crossroad, community,
-	 * populated place or locale) that usually does not have a formally established boundary.
+	 * A point giving the position and name of a locality, such as a crossroad,
+	 * community, populated place or locale.
+	 *
+	 * The locality has no formally established boundary in the general case.
 	 */
 	LocalityPoint: "C3081",
 
 	/**
-	 * A point that serves as the core of an Alaska Native village and is used in
-	 * defining Alaska Native village statistical areas.
+	 * The point at the center of an Alaska Native village, used to delineate
+	 * Alaska Native village statistical areas.
 	 */
 	AlaskaNativeVillageOfficialPoint: "C3085",
 
 	/**
-	 * This feature represents sovereign states recognized by the U.S. Department of State.
-	 *
-	 * For Census Bureau purposes, decennial census covers the United States,
-	 * Puerto Rico and the Island Areas.
-	 * These areas include American Samoa, Guam, the Commonwealth of the Northern
-	 * Mariana Islands and the U.S. Virgin Islands.
+	 * A sovereign state recognized by the U.S. Department of State.
 	 *
-	 * The feature may also include other sovereign states such as Canada and Mexico,
-	 * but currently does not do so.
+	 * The decennial census covers the United States, Puerto Rico and the Island Areas: American Samoa,
+	 * Guam, the Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands and the U.S. Virgin Islands.
+	 * The class could hold other sovereign states such as Canada and Mexico, and at present holds neither.
 	 */
 	Nation: "G1000",
 
 	/**
-	 * A grouping of states and the District of Columbia for the presentation of census data.
+	 * A group of states plus the District of Columbia used to present census data.
 	 *
-	 * The United States is subdivided into four Census Regions—Northeast, South, Midwest and West.
+	 * There are four Census Regions: Northeast, South, Midwest and West.
 	 */
 	CensusRegion: "G1100",
 
 	/**
-	 * A grouping of states and the District of Columbia that is a subdivision of the four Census Regions.
+	 * A group of states plus the District of Columbia that subdivides one of the four Census Regions.
 	 */
 	CensusDivision: "G1200",
 
 	/**
-	 * A legally defined state- or federally recognized reservation and/or off-reservation
-	 * trust land entity (excluding statistical American Indian and Alaska Native areas).
+	 * A legally defined reservation or off-reservation trust land recognized by a state
+	 * or the federal government.
+	 *
+	 * Statistical American Indian and Alaska Native areas are excluded.
 	 */
 	AmericanIndianArea: "G2100",
 
 	/**
-	 * A legal area held in trust for the benefit of Native Hawaiians by the state of Hawaii,
-	 * pursuant to the Hawaiian Homes Commission Act of 1920, as amended.
+	 * Land the state of Hawaii holds in trust for Native Hawaiians under the Hawaiian
+	 * Homes Commission Act of 1920, as amended.
 	 */
 	HawaiianHomeLand: "G2120",
 
 	/**
-	 * A statistical area that represents the more densely settled portion of Alaska Native villages
-	 * (ANVs), which constitute associations, bands, clans, communities, groups, tribes, or villages
-	 * recognized pursuant to the Alaska Native Claims Settlement Act of 1971 (Public Law 92-203).
+	 * A statistical area covering the densely settled part of an Alaska Native village (ANV).
+	 *
+	 * An ANV is an association, band, clan, community, group, tribe or village recognized
+	 * under the Alaska Native Claims Settlement Act of 1971 (Public Law 92-203).
 	 */
 	AlaskaNativeVillageStatisticalArea: "G2130",
 
 	/**
-	 * A statistical entity identified and delineated by the Census Bureau in consultation
-	 * with federally recognized American Indian tribes that have no current reservation,
-	 * but had a former reservation in Oklahoma.
+	 * A statistical area the Census Bureau delineates with a federally recognized American
+	 * Indian tribe that has no reservation today and had a former reservation in Oklahoma.
 	 */
 	OklahomaTribalStatisticalArea: "G2140",
 
 	/**
-	 * A statistical geographic entity identified and delineated for the Census Bureau
-	 * by a state-appointed liaison for a state-recognized American Indian tribe that
-	 * does not currently have a reservation and/or lands in trust.
+	 * A statistical area delineated for the Census Bureau by a state-appointed liaison for
+	 * a state-recognized American Indian tribe that has no reservation or trust land today.
 	 */
 	StateDesignatedTribalStatisticalArea: "G2150",
 
 	/**
-	 * A statistical geographic entity identified and delineated for the Census Bureau
-	 * by a federally recognized American Indian tribe that does not currently have
-	 * a reservation and/or off-reservation trust land.
+	 * A statistical area delineated for the Census Bureau by a federally recognized American
+	 * Indian tribe that has no reservation or off-reservation trust land today.
 	 */
 	TribalDesignatedStatisticalArea: "G2160",
 
 	/**
-	 * An area administered jointly and/or claimed by two or more American Indian tribes.
+	 * An area that two or more American Indian tribes administer jointly or both claim.
 	 */
 	AmericanIndianJointUseArea: "G2170",
 
 	/**
-	 * Corporate entities with legal boundaries established to conduct both business
-	 * and nonprofit affairs of Alaska Natives pursuant to the Alaska Native Claims
-	 * Settlement Act of 1972 (Public Law 92-203).
+	 * A corporation with legal boundaries, set up under the Alaska Native Claims Settlement Act
+	 * (Public Law 92-203), that conducts business and nonprofit affairs for Alaska Natives.
 	 *
-	 * There are twelve geographically defined ANRCs and they are all within and cover most of the State
-	 * of Alaska (the Annette Island Reserve—an American Indian reservation—is excluded from any anrc).
+	 * The twelve geographically defined ANRCs lie inside Alaska and together cover most of the state.
+	 * The Annette Island Reserve, an American Indian reservation, belongs to no ANRC.
 	 */
 	AlaskaNativeRegionalCorporation: "G2200",
 
 	/**
-	 * Administrative subdivisions of federally recognized American Indian reservations,
-	 * off-reservation trust lands, or Oklahoma tribal statistical areas (OTSAs).
+	 * An administrative subdivision of a federally recognized American Indian reservation,
+	 * off-reservation trust land or Oklahoma tribal statistical area (OTSA).
 	 *
-	 * These entities are internal units of self-government or administration that serve social,
-	 * cultural and/or economic purposes for the American Indians on the reservations,
-	 * off-reservation trust lands, or OTSAs.
+	 * Each is an internal unit of self-government or administration serving social,
+	 * cultural or economic purposes for the American Indians living in that area.
 	 */
 	TribalSubdivision: "G2300",
 
 	/**
-	 * A relatively small and permanent statistical subdivision of a federally recognized American
-	 * Indian reservation and/or off-reservation trust land, delineated by American Indian
-	 * tribal participants or the Census Bureau for the purpose of presenting demographic data.
+	 * A small, stable statistical subdivision of a federally recognized American Indian
+	 * reservation or off-reservation trust land, delineated by tribal participants
+	 * or the Census Bureau to present demographic data.
 	 */
 	TribalCensusTract: "G2400",
 
 	/**
-	 * A cluster of census blocks within a single tribal census tract delineated by American Indian
-	 * tribal participants or the Census Bureau for the purpose of presenting demographic data.
+	 * A cluster of census blocks inside one tribal census tract, delineated by tribal
+	 * participants or the Census Bureau to present demographic data.
 	 */
 	TribalBlockGroup: "G2410",
 
 	/**
-	 * A grouping of adjacent metropolitan and/or micropolitan statistical areas that have
-	 * a degree of economic and social integration, as measured by commuting.
+	 * A group of adjacent metropolitan or micropolitan statistical areas whose economic
+	 * and social ties are measured by commuting.
 	 */
 	CombinedStatisticalArea: "G3100",
 
 	/**
-	 * An area containing a substantial population nucleus together with adjacent communities having
-	 * a high degree of economic and social integration with that core, as measured by commuting.
+	 * A population core plus the adjacent communities tied to it economically
+	 * and socially, with the ties measured by commuting.
 	 *
-	 * Each area is defined using whole counties and equivalents.
+	 * Each area is built from whole counties and county equivalents.
 	 */
 	MetropolitanMicropolitanStatisticalArea: "G3110",
 
 	/**
-	 * A county or grouping of counties that is a subdivision of a Metropolitan Statistical
-	 * Area containing an urbanized area with a population of 2.5 million or more.
+	 * A county or group of counties that subdivides a Metropolitan Statistical Area
+	 * whose urbanized area has 2.5 million or more people.
 	 */
 	MetropolitanDivision: "G3120",
 
 	/**
-	 * A grouping of adjacent New England city and town areas that have a degree of economic
-	 * and social integration, as measured by commuting.
+	 * A group of adjacent New England city and town areas whose economic
+	 * and social ties are measured by commuting.
 	 */
 	CombinedNewEnglandCityTownArea: "G3200",
 
 	/**
-	 * An area containing a substantial population nucleus together with adjacent communities having
-	 * a high degree of economic and social integration with that core, as measured by commuting.
+	 * A population core plus the adjacent communities tied to it economically
+	 * and socially, with the ties measured by commuting.
 	 *
-	 * Each area is defined using Minor Civil Divisions (MCDs) in New England.
+	 * Each area is built from New England Minor Civil Divisions (MCDs).
 	 */
 	NewEnglandCityTownMetropolitanMicropolitanStatisticalArea: "G3210",
 
 	/**
-	 * A grouping of cities and towns in New England that is a subdivision of a New England City
-	 * and Town Area containing an urbanized area with a population of 2.5 million or more.
+	 * A group of New England cities and towns that subdivides a New England City
+	 * and Town Area whose urbanized area has 2.5 million or more people.
 	 */
 	NewEnglandCityTownDivision: "G3220",
 
 	/**
-	 * For the 2020 Census, an urban area will comprise a densely developed core of census
-	 * blocks that meet minimum housing unit density requirements, along with adjacent territory
-	 * containing non-residential urban land uses as well as other lower density territory
-	 * included to link outlying densely settled territory with the densely settled core.
+	 * For the 2020 Census, a dense core of census blocks that meet a minimum housing-unit
+	 * density, plus adjacent non-residential urban land and lower-density land that
+	 * links outlying dense settlement to the core.
 	 *
-	 * To qualify as an urban area, the territory identified according to the criteria
-	 * must encompass at least 2,000 housing units or at least 5,000 persons.
+	 * The territory qualifies as an urban area when it holds at least 2,000 housing units
+	 * or at least 5,000 people.
 	 */
 	UrbanArea: "G3500",
 
 	/**
-	 * The primary governmental divisions of the United States.
+	 * A primary governmental division of the United States.
 	 *
-	 * The District of Columbia is treated as a statistical equivalent of a state for
-	 * census purposes, as are Puerto Rico, American Samoa, Guam, the Commonwealth of
-	 * the Northern Mariana Islands and the U.S. Virgin Islands.
+	 * For census purposes the District of Columbia, Puerto Rico, American Samoa,
+	 * Guam, the Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands and the U.S. Virgin
+	 * Islands are each treated as equivalent to a state.
 	 */
 	StateEquivalentFeature: "G4000",
 
 	/**
-	 * The primary division of a state or state equivalent area.
+	 * A primary division of a state or state equivalent.
+	 *
+	 * In 48 states the division is a county.
+	 * Alaska uses boroughs, Louisiana uses parishes and Puerto Rico uses municipios.
 	 *
-	 * The primary divisions of 48 states are termed County, but other terms are used such
-	 * as Borough in Alaska, Parish in Louisiana and Municipio in Puerto Rico.
-	 * This feature includes independent cities.
-	 * They are incorporated places outside any county.
+	 * Independent cities belong to this class.
+	 * An independent city is an incorporated place outside every county.
 	 */
 	CountyEquivalentFeature: "G4020",
 
 	/**
-	 * The primary divisions of counties and equivalent features for the reporting of Census Bureau data.
+	 * A primary division of a county or county equivalent, used to report Census Bureau data.
 	 *
-	 * The subtypes of this feature are Minor Civil Division, Census County
-	 * Division/Census Subarea and Unorganized Territory.
-	 * This feature includes independent places.
+	 * Its subtypes are Minor Civil Division, Census County Division/Census Subarea and Unorganized Territory.
+	 * Independent places belong to this class.
 	 *
-	 * They are incorporated places that are not part of any county subdivision.
+	 * An independent place is an incorporated place outside every county subdivision.
 	 */
 	CountySubdivision: "G4040",
 
 	/**
-	 * A subdivision of the three major islands in the U.S. Virgin Islands (usvi).
+	 * A subdivision of the three main islands of the U.S. Virgin Islands (USVI).
 	 *
-	 * The estates have legally defined boundaries and are much smaller in area than the Census
-	 * Subdistricts (usvi county subdivisions), but do not necessarily nest within these districts.
+	 * Estates have legal boundaries and are much smaller than the Census Subdistricts
+	 * (the USVI county subdivisions), and an estate does not always fall inside a single subdistrict.
 	 */
 	Estate: "G4050",
 
 	/**
-	 * Legally defined divisions (subbarrios) of minor civil divisions
-	 * (barrios-pueblo and barrios) in Puerto Rico.
+	 * A legally defined subdivision (subbarrio) of a Puerto Rico minor civil
+	 * division (barrio-pueblo or barrio).
 	 */
 	SubMinorCivilDivision: "G4060",
 
 	/**
-	 * A legal entity incorporated under state law to provide general-purpose
-	 * governmental services to a concentration of population.
+	 * A legal entity incorporated under state law that provides general-purpose
+	 * government services to a population center.
 	 *
-	 * Incorporated places are generally designated as a city, borough, municipality, town,
-	 * village, or, in a few instances, have a different legal description.
+	 * Most are designated a city, borough, municipality, town or village.
+	 * A small number have another legal description.
 	 */
 	IncorporatedPlace: "G4110",
 
 	/**
-	 * An incorporated place that has merged governmentally with a county or minor civil division,
-	 * but one or more of the incorporated places continues to function within the consolidation.
+	 * An incorporated place that merged its government with a county or minor civil division
+	 * while one or more incorporated places inside it keep functioning.
 	 *
-	 * It is a place that contains additional separately incorporated places.
+	 * It contains other separately incorporated places.
 	 */
 	ConsolidatedCity: "G4120",
 
 	/**
-	 * A statistical area defined around a concentration of population and is the
-	 * statistical counterpart of an incorporated place.
+	 * A statistical area drawn around a population center, the statistical
+	 * counterpart of an incorporated place.
 	 */
 	CensusDesignatedPlace: "G4210",
 
 	/**
-	 * The lowest level of geographic area for presentation of some types of Economic Census data.
+	 * The smallest geography at which the Economic Census presents certain data.
 	 *
-	 * It includes incorporated places, consolidated cities, census designated places (CDPs),
-	 * minor civil divisions (MCDs) in selected states and balances of MCDs or counties.
-	 * An incorporated place, CDP, MCD, or balance of MCD qualifies as an economic
-	 * census place if it contains 2,500 or more residents, or 2,500 or more jobs,
-	 * according to the most current data available.
+	 * It covers incorporated places, consolidated cities, census designated places (CDPs),
+	 * minor civil divisions (MCDs) in selected states, and the remainders of MCDs or counties.
+	 * One of these qualifies when the most recent data show at least 2,500 residents or at least 2,500 jobs.
 	 */
 	EconomicCensusPlace: "G4300",
 
 	/**
-	 * Relatively permanent statistical subdivisions of a County or equivalent feature delineated
-	 * by local participants as part of the Census Bureau's Participant Statistical Areas Program.
+	 * A stable statistical subdivision of a county or county equivalent, delineated by
+	 * local participants in the Census Bureau's Participant Statistical Areas Program.
 	 */
 	CensusTract: "G5020",
 
 	/**
-	 * A cluster of census blocks having the same first digit of their four-digit
-	 * identifying numbers within a Census Tract.
+	 * The census blocks in one census tract whose four-digit block numbers share a first digit.
 	 *
-	 * For example, block group 3 (BG 3) within a Census Tract includes all blocks numbered from 3000 to 3999.
+	 * Block group 3 (BG 3) of a tract, for example, holds blocks 3000 through 3999.
 	 */
 	BlockGroup: "G5030",
 
 	/**
-	 * The lowest-order census defined statistical area.
+	 * The smallest statistical area the census defines.
 	 *
-	 * It is an area, such as a city block, bounded primarily by physical features
-	 * but sometimes by invisible city or property boundaries.
-	 * A tabulation block boundary does not cross the boundary of any other geographic
-	 * area for which the Census Bureau tabulates data.
+	 * A block, such as a city block, is bounded mostly by physical features
+	 * and in some cases by invisible city or property lines.
+	 * Its boundary never crosses the boundary of any other area the Census Bureau tabulates.
 	 *
-	 * The subtypes of this feature are Count Question Resolution (CQR), current and tabulation census.
+	 * Its subtypes are Count Question Resolution (CQR), current and tabulation census.
 	 */
 	TabulationBlock: "G5040",
 
 	/**
-	 * The 435 areas from which people are elected to the U.S. House of Representatives.
+	 * One of the 435 districts that elect members of the U.S. House of Representatives.
 	 *
-	 * Additional equivalent features exist for state equivalents with nonvoting
-	 * delegates or no representative.
-	 * The subtypes of this feature are 111th, 113th, 114th, 115th, 116th, 117th
-	 * and 118th Congressional Districts, plus subsequent Congresses.
+	 * Equivalent features exist for state equivalents that have a nonvoting delegate or no representative.
+	 * The subtypes are the 111th and 113th through 118th Congressional Districts and each later Congress.
 	 */
 	CongressionalDistrict: "G5200",
 
 	/**
-	 * Areas established by a state or equivalent government from which members are elected
-	 * to the upper or unicameral chamber of a state governing body.
+	 * A district, set by a state or equivalent government, that elects members to the upper
+	 * chamber of a bicameral legislature (the senate) or to a unicameral legislature (Nebraska).
 	 *
-	 * The upper chamber is the senate in a bicameral legislature.
-	 * The unicameral case is a single house legislature (Nebraska).
-	 *
-	 * The subtypes of this feature are legislative session year, such as 2010, 2012, 2014,
-	 * 2016, 2017, 2018 and later years, with the year indicating the district's vintage.
+	 * The subtypes are legislative session years, such as 2010, 2012, 2014, 2016, 2017, 2018 and later.
+	 * The year gives the district's vintage.
 	 */
 	StateLegislativeDistrictUpperChamber: "G5210",
 
 	/**
-	 * Areas established by a state or equivalent government from which members are
-	 * elected to the lower chamber of a state governing body.
+	 * A district, set by a state or equivalent government, that elects members to the
+	 * lower chamber of a bicameral legislature (the House of Representatives).
 	 *
-	 * The lower chamber is the House of Representatives in a bicameral legislature.
-	 * The subtypes of this feature are legislative session year, such as 2010, 2012, 2014,
-	 * 2016, 2017, 2018 and later years, with the year indicating the district's vintage.
+	 * The subtypes are legislative session years, such as 2010, 2012, 2014, 2016, 2017, 2018 and later.
+	 * The year gives the district's vintage.
 	 */
 	StateLegislativeDistrictLowerChamber: "G5220",
 
 	/**
-	 * The generic name for geographic features established by state, local
-	 * and tribal governments to conduct elections.
-	 * Examples include precincts, wards and election districts.
+	 * Any area a state, local or tribal government sets up to run elections,
+	 * such as a precinct, ward or election district.
 	 */
 	VotingDistrict: "G5240",
 
 	/**
-	 * A geographic area within which officials provide public elementary grade-level
-	 * educational services for residents.
+	 * An area whose officials provide public elementary-grade education to its residents.
 	 */
 	ElementarySchoolDistrict: "G5400",
 
 	/**
-	 * A geographic area within which officials provide public secondary grade-level
-	 * educational services for residents.
+	 * An area whose officials provide public secondary-grade education to its residents.
 	 */
 	SecondarySchoolDistrict: "G5410",
 
 	/**
-	 * A geographic area within which officials provide public educational services
-	 * for all grade levels for residents.
+	 * An area whose officials provide public education at every grade level to its residents.
 	 */
 	UnifiedSchoolDistrict: "G5420",
 
 	/**
-	 * Statistical geographic areas defined for the tabulation and dissemination of American
-	 * Community Survey (ACS) and Puerto Rico Community Survey, Public Use Microdata
-	 * Sample (pums) data, ACS period estimates and decennial census data.
+	 * A statistical area for tabulating and publishing American Community Survey (ACS)
+	 * and Puerto Rico Community Survey Public Use Microdata Sample (PUMS) data,
+	 * ACS period estimates and decennial census data.
 	 *
-	 * PUMAs nest within states or equivalent entities and cover the entirety of the
-	 * United States, Puerto Rico, Guam and the U.S. Virgin Islands.
+	 * PUMAs nest inside states or state equivalents and together cover the United States,
+	 * Puerto Rico, Guam and the U.S. Virgin Islands.
 	 */
 	PublicUseMicrodataArea: "G6120",
 
 	/**
-	 * An area defined under state authority to manage urbanization that the U.S. Census
-	 * Bureau includes in its products in agreement with an individual state.
+	 * An area a state defines under its own authority to manage urban growth.
+	 *
+	 * The Census Bureau publishes it by agreement with that state.
 	 */
 	UrbanGrowthArea: "G6330",
 
 	/**
-	 * An approximate statistical-area representation of a U.S. Postal Service
-	 * (USPS) 5-digit ZIP Code service area.
+	 * A statistical approximation of the area a U.S. Postal Service (USPS) five-digit ZIP Code serves.
 	 */
 	ZIPCodeTabulationArea: "G6350",
 
 	/**
-	 * A grouping of municipios (county equivalents) defined by Puerto Rico officials
-	 * for the purpose of presenting economic census statistical data.
+	 * A group of municipios (county equivalents) that Puerto Rico officials define
+	 * to present economic census data.
 	 */
 	PlanningRegion: "G6400",
 
 	/**
-	 * A known, but nonspecific, hydrographic connection between two nonadjacent water features.
+	 * A hydrographic link between two non-adjacent water features whose exact course is unknown.
 	 */
 	Connector: "H1100",
 
 	/**
-	 * A standing body of water that is surrounded by land.
+	 * A still body of water with land on every side.
 	 */
 	LakePond: "H2030",
 
 	/**
-	 * An artificially impounded body of water.
+	 * Water held back by a built structure.
 	 */
 	Reservoir: "H2040",
 
 	/**
-	 * An artificial body of water built to treat fouled water.
+	 * A built body of water for treating polluted water.
 	 */
 	TreatmentPond: "H2041",
 
 	/**
-	 * A body of water partly surrounded by land.
+	 * Water with land on part of its perimeter.
 	 *
-	 * [includes arm, bight, cove and inlet]
+	 * Covers arms, bights, coves and inlets.
 	 */
 	BayEstuaryGulfSound: "H2051",
 
 	/**
-	 * The great body of salt water that covers much of the Earth.
+	 * The body of salt water that covers most of the Earth's surface.
 	 */
 	OceanSea: "H2053",
 
 	/**
-	 * A body of ice moving outward and down slope from an area of accumulation.
-	 *
-	 * An area of relatively permanent snow or ice on the top or side of a mountain or mountainous area.
+	 * Ice flowing outward and downhill from where it accumulates, or permanent snow
+	 * or ice on a mountain's top or side.
 	 *
-	 * [includes ice field and ice patch]
+	 * Covers ice fields and ice patches.
 	 */
 	Glacier: "H2081",
 
 	/**
-	 * A natural flowing waterway.
+	 * A natural waterway with flowing water.
 	 *
-	 * [includes anabranch, awawa, branch, brook, creek, distributary, fork, kill, pup, rio and run]
+	 * Covers anabranches, awawas, branches, brooks, creeks, distributaries,
+	 * forks, kills, pups, rios and runs.
 	 */
 	StreamRiver: "H3010",
 
 	/**
-	 * A natural flowing waterway with an intricate network of interlacing channels.
+	 * A natural waterway that flows through a web of interlaced channels.
 	 */
 	BraidedStream: "H3013",
 
 	/**
-	 * An artificial waterway constructed to transport water, to irrigate or drain land,
-	 * to connect two or more bodies of water, or to serve as a waterway for watercraft.
+	 * A built waterway that moves water, irrigates or drains land, joins bodies of water,
+	 * or serves as a route for boats.
 	 *
-	 * [includes lateral]
+	 * Covers laterals.
 	 */
 	CanalDitchAqueduct: "H3020",
 
 	/**
-	 * A building complex that contains multiple living quarters generally for which rent is paid.
+	 * A complex of buildings holding several rented living quarters.
 	 */
 	ApartmentBuildingComplex: "K1121",
 
 	/**
-	 * An area in which parking space for house trailers is rented, usually providing utilities and services.
+	 * A site that rents parking spaces for house trailers, with utilities and services in most cases.
 	 */
 	TrailerCourtMobileHomePark: "K1223",
 
 	/**
-	 * A point or area in which the population of military or merchant marine vessels at
-	 * sea are assigned, usually being at or near the home port pier.
+	 * A point or area to which the crews of military or merchant marine vessels at sea
+	 * are assigned, located at or beside the home port pier in most cases.
 	 */
 	CrewOfVesselLocation: "K1225",
 
 	/**
-	 * A facility providing housing for a number of persons employed as semi-permanent or seasonal laborers.
+	 * A facility that houses people employed as semi-permanent or seasonal workers.
 	 */
 	HousingFacilityDormitoryForWorkers: "K1226",
 
 	/**
-	 * A facility providing transient lodging or living quarters, generally for some payment.
+	 * A facility offering short-stay lodging or living quarters, paid for in most cases.
 	 */
 	HotelMotelResortSpaHostelYMCAOrYWCA: "K1227",
 
 	/**
-	 * An area used for setting up mobile temporary living quarters (camp) or holding a
-	 * camp meeting, sometimes providing utilities and other amenities.
+	 * An area for setting up temporary mobile living quarters or for holding a camp meeting,
+	 * in some cases with utilities and other amenities.
 	 */
 	Campground: "K1228",
 
 	/**
-	 * A facility providing low-cost or free living quarters established by a welfare
-	 * or educational organization for the needy people of a district.
+	 * A facility set up by a welfare or educational organization that offers free
+	 * or low-cost living quarters to people in need in its district.
 	 */
 	ShelterMission: "K1229",
 
 	/**
-	 * A facility where the sick or injured may receive medical or surgical attention.
+	 * A facility where sick or injured people receive medical or surgical care.
 	 *
-	 * [including infirmary]
+	 * Covers infirmaries.
 	 */
 	HospitalHospiceUrgentCareFacility: "K1231",
 
 	/**
-	 * A facility to house and provide care for the elderly.
+	 * A facility that houses and cares for elderly people.
 	 */
 	NursingHomeRetirementHomeHomeForTheAged: "K1233",
 
 	/**
-	 * A facility (correctional or non-correctional) where groups of juveniles reside.
+	 * A correctional or non-correctional facility where groups of juveniles live.
 	 *
-	 * This includes training schools, detention centers, residential treatment centers and orphanages.
+	 * Covers training schools, detention centers, residential treatment centers and orphanages.
 	 */
 	JuvenileInstitution: "K1235",
 
 	/**
-	 * A facility that serves as a place for the confinement of adult persons in lawful detention,
-	 * administered by a local (tribal, county, municipal, etc.) government.
+	 * A facility for the lawful detention of adults, run by a local
+	 * (tribal, county, municipal or similar) government.
 	 */
 	LocalJailDetentionCenter: "K1236",
 
 	/**
-	 * A facility that serves as a place for the confinement of adult persons in lawful
-	 * detention, administered by the federal government or a state government.
+	 * A facility for the lawful detention of adults, run by the federal government or a state government.
 	 */
 	FederalPenitentiaryStatePrisonPrisonFarm: "K1237",
 
 	/**
-	 * A facility that serves as a place for the confinement of adult persons in lawful detention
-	 * rather than elsewhere classified or administered by a government of unknown jurisdiction.
+	 * A facility for the lawful detention of adults that fits no other class
+	 * or whose administering government is unknown.
 	 */
 	OtherCorrectionalInstitution: "K1238",
 
 	/**
-	 * An institution intended for residential use by those having a religious vocation.
+	 * An institution where people with a religious vocation live.
 	 */
 	ConventMonasteryRectoryOtherReligiousGroupQuarters: "K1239",
 
 	/**
-	 * A place where employees are employed in federal, state, local, or tribal government.
+	 * A workplace of a federal, state, local or tribal government.
 	 */
 	GovernmentalWorkplaces: "K2100",
 
 	/**
-	 * An area owned and/or occupied by the Department of Defense for use by a branch of
-	 * the armed forces (such as the Army, Navy, Air Force, Marines, or Coast Guard),
-	 * or a state owned area for the use of the National Guard.
+	 * An area the Department of Defense owns or occupies for a branch of the armed forces
+	 * (Army, Navy, Air Force, Marines or Coast Guard), or a state-owned area used by the National Guard.
 	 */
 	MilitaryInstallation: "K2110",
 
 	/**
-	 * A meeting place used by members of a community for social, cultural, or recreational purposes.
+	 * A place where community members meet for social, cultural or recreational purposes.
 	 */
 	CommunityCenter: "K2146",
 
 	/**
-	 * A place used by members of government (either federal, state, local, or tribal)
-	 * for administration and public business.
+	 * A place where a federal, state, local or tribal government conducts administration and public business.
 	 */
 	GovernmentCenter: "K2165",
 
 	/**
-	 * An exhibition hall or conference center with enough open space to host public
+	 * An exhibition hall or conference center with open space for public
 	 * and private business and social events.
 	 */
 	ConventionCenter: "K2167",
 
 	/**
-	 * A place or area set aside for recreation or preservation of a cultural or natural resource.
+	 * A place reserved for recreation or for preserving a cultural or natural resource.
 	 */
 	Park: "K2180",
 
 	/**
-	 * Land under the jurisdiction of the National Park Service, including National Parks,
-	 * most National Monuments and certain other lands.
+	 * Land the National Park Service administers, including National Parks,
+	 * most National Monuments and certain other land.
 	 */
 	NationalParkServiceLand: "K2181",
 
 	/**
-	 * Land under the jurisdiction of the U.S. Forest Service or other federal agency,
-	 * excluding National Park Service land.
+	 * Land the U.S. Forest Service or another federal agency administers,
+	 * other than National Park Service land.
 	 */
 	NationalForestOtherFederalLand: "K2182",
 
 	/**
-	 * A place or area set aside for recreation or preservation of a cultural or natural
-	 * resource and under the administration of an American Indian tribe.
+	 * A place reserved for recreation or for preserving a cultural or natural resource,
+	 * administered by an American Indian tribe.
 	 */
 	TribalParkForestRecreationArea: "K2183",
 
 	/**
-	 * A place or area set aside for recreation or preservation of a cultural
-	 * or natural resource and under the administration of a state government.
+	 * A place reserved for recreation or for preserving a cultural or natural resource,
+	 * administered by a state government.
 	 */
 	StateParkForestRecreationArea: "K2184",
 
 	/**
-	 * A place or area set aside for recreation or preservation of a cultural
-	 * or natural resource and under the administration of a regional government.
+	 * A place reserved for recreation or for preserving a cultural or natural resource,
+	 * administered by a regional government.
 	 */
 	RegionalParkForestRecreationArea: "K2185",
 
 	/**
-	 * A place or area set aside for recreation or preservation of a cultural
-	 * or natural resource and under the administration of a county government.
+	 * A place reserved for recreation or for preserving a cultural or natural resource,
+	 * administered by a county government.
 	 */
 	CountyParkForestRecreationArea: "K2186",
 
 	/**
-	 * A place or area set aside for recreation or preservation of a cultural or natural resource
-	 * and under the administration of a minor civil division (town/township) government.
+	 * A place reserved for recreation or for preserving a cultural or natural resource,
+	 * administered by a minor civil division (town or township) government.
 	 */
 	CountySubdivisionParkForestRecreationArea: "K2187",
 
 	/**
-	 * A place or area set aside for recreation or preservation of a cultural
-	 * or natural resource and under the administration of a municipal government.
+	 * A place reserved for recreation or for preserving a cultural or natural resource,
+	 * administered by a municipal government.
 	 */
 	IncorporatedPlaceParkForestRecreationArea: "K2188",
 
 	/**
-	 * A privately owned place or area set aside for recreation or preservation
-	 * of a cultural or natural resource.
+	 * A privately owned place reserved for recreation or for preserving a cultural or natural resource.
 	 */
 	PrivateParkForestRecreationArea: "K2189",
 
 	/**
-	 * A place or area set aside for recreation or preservation of a cultural
-	 * or natural resource and under the administration of some other type of government
-	 * or agency such as an independent park authority or commission.
+	 * A place reserved for recreation or for preserving a cultural or natural resource, administered by
+	 * another kind of government or agency, such as an independent park authority or commission.
 	 */
 	OtherParkForestRecreationArea: "K2190",
 
 	/**
-	 * An official facility of the U.S. Postal Service used for processing
-	 * and distributing mail and other postal material.
+	 * A U.S. Postal Service facility that processes and distributes mail and other postal material.
 	 */
 	PostOffice: "K2191",
 
 	/**
-	 * A facility that houses equipment and personnel to fight fires and provide other assistance.
+	 * A facility housing the equipment and staff that fight fires and provide other emergency help.
 	 */
 	FireDepartment: "K2193",
 
 	/**
-	 * A facility that is the headquarters for law enforcement officers.
+	 * A facility that serves as headquarters for law enforcement officers.
 	 */
 	PoliceStation: "K2194",
 
 	/**
-	 * A facility in which literary, musical, artistic, or reference materials are kept for public use.
+	 * A facility that keeps literary, musical, artistic or reference material for public use.
 	 */
 	Library: "K2195",
 
 	/**
-	 * A facility that houses the chief administrative offices of a local municipal government.
+	 * A facility housing the main administrative offices of a local municipal government.
 	 */
 	CityTownHall: "K2196",
 
 	/**
-	 * A place of employment for wholesale, retail, or other trade.
+	 * A workplace for wholesale, retail or other trade.
 	 */
 	CommercialWorkplace: "K2300",
 
 	/**
-	 * A group of retail establishments within a planned subdivision sharing a common parking area.
+	 * A group of retail businesses in a planned development that share one parking area.
 	 */
 	ShoppingCenterMajorRetailCenter: "K2361",
 
 	/**
-	 * One or more manufacturing establishments within an area zoned for fabrication,
-	 * construction, or other similar trades.
+	 * One or more manufacturing businesses in an area zoned for fabrication, construction or similar trades.
 	 */
 	IndustrialBuildingIndustrialPark: "K2362",
 
 	/**
-	 * One or more structures containing employees performing business, clerical, or professional services.
+	 * One or more structures where employees perform business, clerical or professional services.
 	 */
 	OfficeBuildingOfficePark: "K2363",
 
 	/**
-	 * An agricultural establishment where crops are grown and/or animals are raised.
+	 * An agricultural business that grows crops or raises animals.
 	 */
 	FarmVineyardWineryOrchard: "K2364",
 
 	/**
-	 * A place of employment not elsewhere classified or of unknown type.
+	 * A workplace that fits no other class or whose type is unknown.
 	 */
 	OtherEmploymentCenter: "K2366",
 
 	/**
-	 * A facility where one or more modes of transportation can be accessed by people
-	 * or for the shipment of goods.
+	 * A facility where people board one or more modes of transportation or where goods are shipped.
 	 *
-	 * Examples of such a facility include marine terminal, bus station, train station,
-	 * airport and truck warehouse.
+	 * Marine terminals, bus stations, train stations, airports and truck warehouses are examples.
 	 */
 	TransportationTerminal: "K2400",
 
 	/**
-	 * A place where privately owned, light-watercraft and/or houseboats are moored.
+	 * A place where privately owned light watercraft or houseboats are moored.
 	 */
 	Marina: "K2424",
 
 	/**
-	 * A platform built out from the shore into the water and supported by piles.
+	 * A platform on piles that extends from the shore over the water.
 	 *
-	 * This platform may provide access to ships and boats, or it may be used for recreational purposes.
+	 * It gives ships and boats access to the shore or serves recreation.
 	 */
 	PierDock: "K2432",
 
 	/**
-	 * A manmade facility maintained for the use of aircraft.
+	 * A built facility maintained for aircraft.
 	 *
-	 * [including airstrip, landing field and landing strip]
+	 * Covers airstrips, landing fields and landing strips.
 	 */
 	AirportAirfield: "K2451",
 
 	/**
-	 * A place where travelers can board and exit rail transit lines, including
-	 * associated ticketing, freight and other commercial offices.
+	 * A place where passengers board and leave rail transit, together with its ticketing,
+	 * freight and other commercial offices.
 	 */
 	TrainStationTrolleyMassTransitRailStation: "K2452",
 
 	/**
-	 * A place where travelers can board and exit mass motor vehicle transit,
-	 * including associated ticketing, freight and other commercial offices.
+	 * A place where passengers board and leave motor-vehicle mass transit,
+	 * together with its ticketing, freight and other commercial offices.
 	 */
 	BusTerminal: "K2453",
 
 	/**
-	 * A place where travelers can board and exit water transit or where cargo is handled,
-	 * including associated ticketing, freight and other commercial offices.
+	 * A place where passengers board and leave water transit or cargo is handled,
+	 * together with its ticketing, freight and other commercial offices.
 	 */
 	MarineTerminal: "K2454",
 
 	/**
-	 * A place where an airplane equipped with floats for landing on or taking off
-	 * from a body of water can debark and load.
+	 * A place where a floatplane, an airplane that lands on and takes off from water, unloads and loads.
 	 */
 	SeaplaneAnchorage: "K2455",
 
 	/**
-	 * The area of an airport adjusted to include whole tabulation blocks used
-	 * for the delineation of urban areas.
+	 * An airport's area, adjusted to whole tabulation blocks, used to delineate urban areas.
 	 */
 	AirportStatisticalRepresentation: "K2457",
 
 	/**
-	 * A fairly level and usually paved expanse used by airplanes for taking off and landing at an airport.
+	 * A level, paved in most cases, surface at an airport where airplanes take off and land.
 	 */
 	RunwayTaxiway: "K2459",
 
 	/**
-	 * A fairly level and usually paved expanse used by helicopters for taking off and landing.
+	 * A level, paved in most cases, surface where helicopters take off and land.
 	 */
 	HelicopterLandingPad: "K2460",
 
 	/**
-	 * An institution for post-secondary study, teaching and learning.
+	 * An institution for post-secondary study and teaching.
 	 *
-	 * [including seminary]
+	 * Covers seminaries.
 	 */
 	UniversityCollege: "K2540",
 
 	/**
-	 * An institution for preschool, elementary or secondary study, teaching and learning.
+	 * An institution for preschool, elementary or secondary study and teaching.
 	 */
 	SchoolAcademy: "K2543",
 
 	/**
 	 * An attraction of historical, cultural, educational or other interest that
-	 * provides information or displays artifacts.
+	 * presents information or displays artifacts.
 	 */
 	MuseumVisitorCenterCulturalCenterTouristAttraction: "K2545",
 
 	/**
-	 * A public or private facility designed for playing golf.
+	 * A public or private facility for playing golf.
 	 */
 	GolfCourse: "K2561",
 
 	/**
-	 * A facility that offers entertainment, performances or sporting events.
+	 * A facility for entertainment, performances or sporting events.
 	 *
-	 * Examples include arena, auditorium, theater, stadium, coliseum, race course,
-	 * theme park, fairgrounds and shooting range.
+	 * Arenas, auditoriums, theaters, stadiums, coliseums, race courses, theme parks,
+	 * fairgrounds and shooting ranges are examples.
 	 */
 	AmusementCenter: "K2564",
 
 	/**
-	 * A place or area for burying the dead.
+	 * A place where the dead are buried.
 	 *
-	 * [including burying ground and memorial garden]
+	 * Covers burying grounds and memorial gardens.
 	 */
 	Cemetery: "K2582",
 
 	/**
-	 * A facility in which terrestrial and/or marine animals are confined within enclosures
-	 * and displayed to the public for educational, preservation and research purposes.
+	 * A facility that keeps land or marine animals in enclosures and shows them to
+	 * the public for education, preservation and research.
 	 */
 	Zoo: "K2586",
 
 	/**
-	 * A sanctified place or structure where people gather for religious worship.
-	 * Examples include church, synagogue, temple and mosque.
+	 * A consecrated place or structure where people gather to worship, such as a church,
+	 * synagogue, temple or mosque.
 	 */
 	PlaceOfWorship: "K3544",
 
 	/**
-	 * A long tubular conduit or series of pipes, often underground, with pumps and valves for flow
-	 * control, used to transport fluid (e.g., crude oil, natural gas), especially over great distances.
+	 * A long conduit or chain of pipes, underground in most cases, with pumps and valves to regulate
+	 * flow, that moves fluid such as crude oil or natural gas, in most cases over long distances.
 	 */
 	Pipeline: "L4010",
 
 	/**
-	 * One or more wires, often on elevated towers, used for conducting high-voltage electric power.
+	 * One or more wires, on elevated towers in most cases, that conduct high-voltage electric power.
 	 */
 	Powerline: "L4020",
 
 	/**
-	 * A conveyance that transports passengers or freight in carriers suspended from cables
-	 * and supported by a series of towers.
+	 * A system that moves passengers or freight in carriers hung from cables held up by towers.
 	 */
 	AerialTramwaySkiLift: "L4031",
 
 	/**
-	 * A man-made barrier enclosing or bordering a field, yard, etc., usually made of posts
-	 * and wire or wood, used to prevent entrance, to confine, or to mark a boundary.
+	 * A built barrier around or along a field, yard or similar area, made of posts with wire
+	 * or wood in most cases, that keeps people or animals out or in, or marks a boundary.
 	 */
 	FenceLine: "L4110",
 
 	/**
-	 * The line of highest elevation along a ridge.
+	 * The line along the highest ground of a ridge.
 	 */
 	RidgeLine: "L4121",
 
 	/**
 	 * A very steep or vertical slope.
 	 *
-	 * [including bluff, crag, head, headland, nose, palisades, precipice, promontory, rim and rimrock]
+	 * Covers bluffs, crags, heads, headlands, noses, palisades, precipices, promontories, rims and rimrock.
 	 */
 	CliffEscarpment: "L4125",
 
 	/**
-	 * A line defined as beginning at one location point and ending at another, where each of these
-	 * points is usually in sight of the other and no structures are in proximity to the line.
+	 * A line from one located point to another, where the two points are in sight of
+	 * each other in most cases and no structure stands close to the line.
 	 *
-	 * This includes straight-line, nonvisible, 180-degree extensions off the
-	 * ends of a terminating linear feature.
+	 * Straight, invisible 180-degree extensions from the ends of a terminating
+	 * linear feature belong to this class.
 	 */
 	PointToPointLine: "L4130",
 
 	/**
-	 * A cadastral boundary line separating two distinct real property parcels
-	 * or a Public Land Survey System or equivalent survey line.
+	 * A cadastral line between two separate real-property parcels, or a Public
+	 * Land Survey System or equivalent survey line.
 	 */
 	PropertyParcelLine: "L4140",
 
 	/**
-	 * The line that separates either land or Inland water from Coastal, Territorial or Great Lakes water.
+	 * The line between land or inland water on one side and coastal, territorial
+	 * or Great Lakes water on the other.
 	 *
-	 * Where land directly borders Coastal, Territorial or Great Lakes water,
-	 * the shoreline represents the Coastline.
-	 * Where Inland water (such as a river) flows into Coastal, Territorial or Great Lakes water,
-	 * the closure line separating the Inland water from the other class of water represents the Coastline.
+	 * Where land meets coastal, territorial or Great Lakes water, the shoreline is the coastline.
+	 * Where inland water such as a river enters one of those waters, the closure
+	 * line between the two is the coastline.
 	 */
 	Coastline: "L4150",
 
 	/**
-	 * A nonvisible feature defining the route used to transport people or cargo back
-	 * and forth over a waterbody in a boat.
+	 * An invisible feature tracing the route a boat takes to move people
+	 * or cargo across a body of water and back.
 	 */
 	FerryCrossing: "L4165",
 
 	/**
-	 * A legal/statistical boundary line that does not correspond to a shoreline
-	 * or other visible feature on the ground.
+	 * A legal or statistical boundary line that follows no shoreline or other visible ground feature.
 	 */
 	NonvisibleLinearLegalStatisticalBoundary: "P0001",
 
 	/**
-	 * The more-or-less permanent boundary between land and water for a water feature that exists year-round.
+	 * The stable boundary between land and water for a water feature present all year.
 	 */
 	PerennialShoreline: "P0002",
 
 	/**
-	 * The boundary between land and water (when water is present) for a water
-	 * feature that does not exist year-round.
+	 * The boundary between land and water, while water is present, for a water
+	 * feature that is not present all year.
 	 */
 	IntermittentShoreline: "P0003",
 
 	/**
-	 * An edge that does not represent a legal/statistical boundary and does not correspond
-	 * to a shoreline or other visible feature on the ground.
+	 * An edge that is neither a legal or statistical boundary nor a shoreline
+	 * or other visible ground feature.
 	 *
-	 * Many such edges bound area landmarks, while many others separate water features
-	 * from each other (e.g., where a bay meets the ocean).
+	 * Such edges bound area landmarks or separate one water feature from another,
+	 * as where a bay meets the ocean.
 	 */
 	OtherNonVisibleEdge: "P0004",
 
 	/**
-	 * A fixed rail line is generally visible from the surface.
+	 * A fixed rail line, visible from the surface in most cases.
 	 *
-	 * It transports any type of rail vehicle, including railroad, off-street transit
-	 * and mountain rail systems.
+	 * It serves every kind of rail vehicle, including railroads, off-street transit and mountain rail.
 	 */
 	RailFeature: "R1011",
 
 	/**
-	 * Primary roads are limited-access highways that connect to other roads only at
-	 * interchanges and not at at-grade intersections.
+	 * A limited-access highway that joins other roads only at interchanges, never at at-grade intersections.
 	 *
-	 * This category includes Interstate highways, as well as all other highways with
-	 * limited access (some of which are toll roads).
-	 * Limited-access highways with only one lane in each direction, as well as those
-	 * that are undivided, are also included under S1100.
+	 * Interstate highways and every other limited-access highway, toll roads among them, belong here.
+	 * S1100 also covers limited-access highways that have one lane in each direction or no divider.
 	 */
 	PrimaryRoad: "S1100",
 
 	/**
-	 * Secondary roads are main arteries that are not limited access, usually in the
-	 * U.S. Highway, state highway, or county highway systems.
+	 * A main artery without limited access, part of the U.S. Highway, state highway
+	 * or county highway system in most cases.
 	 *
-	 * These roads have one or more lanes of traffic in each direction.
-	 * They may or may not be divided.
-	 *
-	 * They usually have at-grade intersections with many other roads and driveways.
-	 * They often have both a local name and a route number.
+	 * These roads have one or more lanes in each direction and may or may not be divided.
+	 * They meet other roads and driveways at at-grade intersections, and they have
+	 * both a local name and a route number in most cases.
 	 */
 	SecondaryRoad: "S1200",
 
 	/**
-	 * Generally a paved non-arterial street, road, or byway that usually has a
-	 * single lane of traffic in each direction.
+	 * A non-arterial street, road or byway, paved and with one lane in each direction in most cases.
 	 *
-	 * Roads in this feature class may be privately or publicly maintained.
-	 * Scenic park roads would be included in this feature class, as would
-	 * (depending on the region of the country) some unpaved roads.
+	 * Private and public maintenance both qualify.
+	 * Scenic park roads belong here, as do some unpaved roads depending on the region.
 	 */
 	LocalNeighborhoodRoadRuralRoadCityStreet: "S1400",
 
 	/**
-	 * An unpaved dirt trail where a four-wheel drive vehicle is required.
+	 * An unpaved dirt trail that requires a four-wheel-drive vehicle.
 	 *
-	 * These vehicular trails are found almost exclusively in very rural areas.
-	 * Minor, unpaved roads usable by ordinary cars and trucks belong in the S1400 category.
+	 * These trails occur almost only in very rural areas.
+	 * Minor unpaved roads that ordinary cars and trucks can use belong to S1400.
 	 */
 	VehicularTrail4WD: "S1500",
 
 	/**
-	 * A road that allows controlled access from adjacent roads onto a limited access highway,
-	 * often in the form of a cloverleaf interchange.
+	 * A road that gives controlled access from adjacent roads onto a limited-access highway,
+	 * in a cloverleaf interchange or other layout.
 	 */
 	Ramp: "S1630",
 
 	/**
-	 * A road, usually paralleling a limited access highway, that provides access to
-	 * structures and/or service facilities along the highway.
+	 * A road, parallel to a limited-access highway in most cases, that reaches structures
+	 * or service facilities along the highway.
 	 *
-	 * These roads can have names and may intersect with other roads.
+	 * These roads can have names and can intersect other roads.
 	 */
 	ServiceDrive: "S1640",
 
 	/**
-	 * A path that is used for walking, being either too narrow for or legally
-	 * restricted from vehicular traffic.
+	 * A walking path that is too narrow for vehicles or closed to them by law.
 	 */
 	WalkwayPedestrianTrail: "S1710",
 
 	/**
-	 * A pedestrian passageway from one level to another by a series of steps.
+	 * A pedestrian passage of steps between two levels.
 	 */
 	Stairway: "S1720",
 
 	/**
-	 * A service road that does not generally have associated addressed structures and is usually unnamed.
-	 *
-	 * It is located at the rear of buildings and properties and is used for deliveries.
+	 * A service road behind buildings and properties, used for deliveries,
+	 * without addressed structures and without a name in most cases.
 	 */
 	Alley: "S1730",
 
 	/**
-	 * A road within private property that is privately maintained for service, extractive, or other purposes.
+	 * A privately maintained road on private property, used for service, extraction or other purposes.
 	 *
-	 * These roads are often unnamed.
+	 * Most of these roads have no name.
 	 */
 	PrivateRoadForServiceVehicles: "S1740",
 
 	/**
-	 * Internal U.S. Census Bureau use.
+	 * Reserved for the U.S. Census Bureau's internal use.
 	 */
 	InternalUSCensusBureauUse: "S1750",
 
 	/**
-	 * The main travel route for vehicles through a paved parking area.
+	 * The main vehicle route through a paved parking area.
 	 *
-	 * This may include unnamed roads through apartment/condominium/office complexes
+	 * Can include roads without a name through apartment, condominium or office complexes
 	 * where pull-in parking spaces line the road.
 	 */
 	ParkingLotRoad: "S1780",
 
 	/**
-	 * This is a seasonal trail type created and marked in snow.
+	 * A seasonal trail made and marked in snow.
 	 *
-	 * Travelers use snowmobiles and dog sleds to reach housing units and connect communities.
+	 * Travelers use snowmobiles and dog sleds on it to reach housing units and link communities.
 	 */
 	WinterTrail: "S1810",
 
 	/**
-	 * A path that is used for manual or small, motorized bicycles, being either too
-	 * narrow for or legally restricted from vehicular traffic.
+	 * A path for pedal or small motorized bicycles that is too narrow for vehicles or closed to them by law.
 	 */
 	BikePathOrTrail: "S1820",
 
 	/**
-	 * A path that is used for horses, being either too narrow for or legally
-	 * restricted from vehicular traffic.
+	 * A path for horses that is too narrow for vehicles or closed to them by law.
 	 */
 	BridlePath: "S1830",
 } as const