<div dir="ltr">In Baltimore County, MD, we have 0 incorporated towns with nearly 1M people. There are however plenty of informal towns that have become CDPs. I believe the Census uses ZCTAs to construct the CDPs, so they're based on ZIP Codes, which in turn are based on postal routes.<div>
<br></div><div>I think humans tend to like boundaries in general, so it is probably natural they end up on OSM. I think that if people identify with them, and there are no other admin boundaries, then go for it.</div></div>
<div class="gmail_extra"><br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Sat, Nov 9, 2013 at 7:17 PM, Serge Wroclawski <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:emacsen@gmail.com" target="_blank">emacsen@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div class="im">On Sat, Nov 9, 2013 at 7:03 PM, Greg Troxel <<a href="mailto:gdt@ir.bbn.com">gdt@ir.bbn.com</a>> wrote:<br>
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> (I realize that in Alaska<br>
> there are some areas where CDPs seem to matter.)<br>
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</div><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bethesda%2C_Maryland" target="_blank">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bethesda%2C_Maryland</a><br>
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- Serge<br>
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