[Talk-us] which boundaries are these?

Dale Puch dale.puch at gmail.com
Fri Oct 26 00:39:48 GMT 2012


You may want
http://www2.census.gov/geo/tiger/TIGER2012/PLACE/
For a more direct download.
All the other tiger downloads are available by browsing from there.

Dale

On Thu, Oct 25, 2012 at 3:57 PM, Martijn van Exel <m at rtijn.org> wrote:

> Would those be the same ones you download here
> http://www.census.gov/geo/www/tiger/tgrshp2010/2010DP1.html (under
> Places, County Subdivisions and Related Areas)?
>
> That link is a geodatabase, but already has population etc so would be
> useful for ghost town ranking.
>
> Martijn
>
> On Thu, Oct 25, 2012 at 1:49 PM, Michal Migurski <mike at teczno.com> wrote:
> > 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.
> >
> > ----------------------------------------------------------------
> > michal migurski- contact info and pgp key:
> > sf/ca            http://mike.teczno.com/contact.html
> >
> >
> >
> >
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