[Talk-us] Nominatim in CDP

[Serge Wroclawski]

CDPs in OSM have been an ongoing issue of discussion for a while.

NE2 stated that he would delete them all unless someone could show him
a single example of them being useful.

I pointed out that Bethesda, MD (noted for being where the NIH and the
Naval Medical Academy, along with several other large landmarks) is a
CDP, as is Silver Spring, MD, which is the 2nd most dense place in MD
except for Baltimore.

After some discussion, he agreed not to delete the objects in the whole US.

The general feeling from many people were that the CDPs were useless
information- only interesting to the census workers and not the
regular people on the street. For them, it probably made sense to
delete the CDPs. For places where CDPs do make sense to keep in, it
would be sad if someone deleted them, but that's likely what happened.

This is (yet another) reason why I believe so strongly in Ian's effort
to move government boundary data out of OSM and into another dataset.

- Serge