[Talk-us] TIGER 2022 PLACE dataset

[Zeke Farwell]

On Fri, Jan 20, 2023 at 11:38 AM Brian M. Sperlongano <zelonewolf at gmail.com>
wrote:

> if someone wants to know how many streets they've run in Ellicott City,
> 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.
>

Ok, that makes sense.  Is it important that the tag you're consuming to
obtain this area is boundary=census, or would an area tagged
place=city|town|village work just as well?  What do you do when someone
wants to run all the roads in Milton, Vermont given Milton is mapped both
as this admin boundary <https://www.openstreetmap.org/relation/8897021> and
as this census boundary <https://www.openstreetmap.org/relation/199120>?
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