[Talk-us] which boundaries are these?

Michal Migurski mike at teczno.com
Thu Oct 25 19:49:11 GMT 2012


On Oct 25, 2012, at 12:30 PM, Martijn van Exel wrote:

> Hi all,
> 
> I want to do a more thorough look into TIGER ghost towns and am
> thinking about a town-by-town analysis. For that I need proper 'town'
> boundaries. I like the ones you get when you search for a place on
> Google Maps:
> 
> https://maps.google.com/maps?q=princeton,+nj
> https://maps.google.com/maps?q=nederland,+co
> 
> What are these boundaries? I am guessing it is some kind of Census division?


It's likely to be a Census "place", non-continuous areas that can cross other boundaries are intended to represent logical towns and cities.

http://www2.census.gov/geo/tiger/TIGER2012/PLACE/

-mike.

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