[Talk-us] Removing a CDP

[Steven Johnson]

The nodes w/ place names are good to have to support a healthy gazetteer function. Much harder to make a case for keeping CDP boundaries. 

--SEJ

Sent from my electronic tether. 

> On 2015年5月19日, at 20:47, Richard Welty <rwelty at averillpark.net> wrote:
> 
>> On 5/19/15 8:35 PM, Clifford Snow wrote:
>> I would like to remove Machias, Washington admin_level  8 since it does not exist as a city in Washington. It has been there for a number of years apparently added by a bot. I plan to leave it as a CDP locality node. There doesn't seem to be any chance that it will become a city and will most likely be annex by Lake Stevens.
>> 
>> Before I do I'd like to hear people opinion about deleting these admin_level=8 for CDP boundaries. 
> i think deleting CDP boundaries that don't make any sense is not unreasonable.
> 
> i've deleted a couple on that basis.
> 
> also, the boundary import that brought in the CDPs is kind of out of date;
> the census bureau has updated quite a few of them, which i noticed while
> cleaning up borders in eastern NY. 
> 
> they probably shouldn't be in an administrative boundary category anyway,
> as they don't have any sort of local governance function.
> 
> richard
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