On Mon, Mar 25, 2019 at 11:58 AM Mateusz Konieczny <matkoni...@tutanota.com> wrote: > Any info about meaning or use of > https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Key:tiger:FUNCSTAT > would be useful.
https://www.census.gov/geo/reference/funcstat.html What those phrases mean is not immediately clear. https://www.census.gov/geo/reference/gtc/gtc_area_attr.html is another treatement of functional status and indicates: "Functional status describes whether a geographic entity is a functioning governmental unit, has an inactive government, is an administrative area without a functioning government, or is a statistical area identified and defined solely for tabulation and presentation of statistical data." - the observation that A and S predominate is in keeping with the definition that 'A' is a functioning governmental unit, and 'S' is a statistical entry only. I'm not sure what areas would have an 'inactive' government or be 'nonfunctioning' legal entities, and I suspect that they're weird. 'Special-purpose functions' are so that TIGER can represent boundaries such as school, library, water, sewer, sanitation, fire protection, police, ... districts - whose boundaries may not match other administrative hierarchies. 'Partially consolidated' refers to situations like the boroughs of New York City, which have largely ceded the executive and legislative functions of counties to the city, but retain an independent judiciary. _______________________________________________ Talk-us mailing list Talk-us@openstreetmap.org https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-us
