[Talk-us] TIGER 2022 PLACE dataset

[Brian M. Sperlongano]

On Fri, Jan 20, 2023 at 11:26 AM Zeke Farwell <ezekielf at gmail.com> wrote:

> I'm not aware of a data consumer that uses this tag.  If anyone is, please
> let us know.
>

I use this tag in StreetFerret[1].

The goal of my site is that if someone wants to track what streets they've
run/walk/hiked in a city, it shows you which streets you've finished and
which ones you haven't.  Thus, I rely on street data and city/town
boundaries to make this happen. For a place like Rhode Island where all of
the municipal boundaries fit together like puzzle pieces with no
unincorporated areas, this is easy -- administrative boundaries give me
everything I need. However there are other places -- I'm thinking Maryland
and Hawaii -- where there are no equivalent municipalities in most places.

So if someone wants to know how many streets they've run in Ellicott
City[2], Maryland, I can't do that with an administrative boundary, because
Ellicott City is just an unincorporated part of Howard County (despite
being the county seat and having a decently sized population). For
Maryland, I use a select list of census boundaries that serve as de-facto
city boundaries for handling the "in a city" problem for areas that aren't
in an incorporated city boundary but are otherwise locally understood as a
geographical place with extents.

[1] streetferret.com
[2] https://www.openstreetmap.org/relation/11078364
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