[Talk-us] Admin boundaries tied to roads

[Brad Neuhauser]

Anthony--In MN, it is usually the case that Census MCDs = CDPs = the
municipal (legal) boundaries.  So, maybe it's best to think of it on a
state-by-state basis.  Brad

On Fri, Apr 23, 2010 at 8:36 PM, Anthony <osm at inbox.org> wrote:
> On Fri, Apr 23, 2010 at 11:01 AM, Brad Neuhauser <brad.neuhauser at gmail.com>
> wrote:
>>
>> The bigger issue with it being
>> imported into OSM is the currency, because municipal boundaries are
>> always changing, and as has been mentioned, boundaries are not usually
>> something that is easily verifiable "on the ground"
>
> I'd say the biggest issue is the fact that, when the census bureau couldn't
> find data on municipalities, they decided to just "make shit up".  They
> picked some arbitrary boundary which had roughly the right number of people
> in it, and then named it after an actual place which happened to be nearby.
>
> The CDPs are horrible when used for any purpose other than interpreting
> census data.  I really wish the census bureau had named them "CDP 1283",
> "CDP 1284", "CDP 1285", etc.