[Talk-us] TIGER 2022 PLACE dataset

[Joseph Eisenberg]

"CDPs are statistical equivalents of incorporated places and represent
unincorporated communities that do not have a legally defined boundary or
an active, functioning governmental structure" -
https://www.census.gov/programs-surveys/bas/information/cdp.html - "Census
Designated Places"

These polygons do not have any official or legal meaning, so they should
not be imported as administrative boundaries.

Census Designated Places are only defined by the Census for their own
convenience.

They do not represent a verifiable geometry that can be mapped in
OpenStreetMap

- Joseph Eisenberg

On Tue, Jan 17, 2023 at 5:22 AM Aleksandar Matejevic (Hi-Tech Talents LLC)
via Talk-us <talk-us at openstreetmap.org> wrote:
>
> Hello,
> I have a question regarding TIGER 2022 PLACE dataset (
https://www2.census.gov/geo/tiger/TIGER2022/PLACE/).
>
> Is it OK with the community to add these polygons to the OSM?
>
> I saw there were some imports of the previous datasets in the past years,
but lot of polygons are still missing, and license looks to be compatible
with the OSM one.
>
> I am not talking about mass import of the data, but using polygons and
adding them one by one if they are not already added and improving
geometries of the existing ones.
>
> What is the opinion on this effort?
>
> Best regards,
> Aleksandar Matejevic
>
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