[Talk-us] An admin_level for CDPs?

[Richard Welty]

On 1/1/13 6:52 PM, Jeff Meyer wrote:
> Zip code areas and voting districts seem to me to be be functionally
> equivalent to CPDs in that they are arbitrary geographic distinctions
> determined by agencies outside of local governments or administrations. Are
> they given a boundary=administrative?
zip codes don't even properly belong in the discussion as there is no
such thing as an "official" zip code area. the post office sees them as
routes, not areas, and the Census zip code boundaries are a synthetic
approximation.

richard