Re: [Talk-us] Removing a CDP

2015-05-20 Thread Serge Wroclawski
I agree with Rich Welty- if you know the area and the CDP boundary makes no sense, then remove it. The issue in the past has been where some people wanted to remove all of them. - Serge On Tue, May 19, 2015 at 8:35 PM, Clifford Snow cliff...@snowandsnow.us wrote: I would like to remove

Re: [Talk-us] Removing a CDP

2015-05-20 Thread Serge Wroclawski
Brad, Thank you for reminding us of what the Census office says that CDPs are. I would just add that CDPs are used in some places as de-facto cities or towns, which is why we've rejected proposals to remove them all. - Serge ___ Talk-us mailing list

Re: [Talk-us] Removing a CDP

2015-05-20 Thread Brad Neuhauser
Just to reinforce what has already been said, here's what the Census thinks of CDPs: Census Designated Places (CDPs) are the statistical counterparts of incorporated places, and are* delineated to provide data for settled concentrations of population that are identifiable by name but are not

Re: [Talk-us] Removing a CDP

2015-05-19 Thread Clifford Snow
That is what I thought as well. It is now gone. If I didn't screw up the boundary multipolygons everything should be correct. (I hate boundaries!!!) Thanks for the help, Clifford On Tue, May 19, 2015 at 6:43 PM, Steven Johnson sejohns...@gmail.com wrote: Yes, U.S. Census Bureau treats them as

[Talk-us] Removing a CDP

2015-05-19 Thread Clifford Snow
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

Re: [Talk-us] Removing a CDP

2015-05-19 Thread Richard Welty
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

Re: [Talk-us] Removing a CDP

2015-05-19 Thread 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 rwe...@averillpark.net wrote: On 5/19/15 8:35 PM, Clifford Snow wrote: I

Re: [Talk-us] Removing a CDP

2015-05-19 Thread Steven Johnson
Yes, U.S. Census Bureau treats them as statistical, not aim boundaries. --SEJ Sent from my electronic tether. On 2015年5月19日, at 21:33, stevea stevea...@softworkers.com wrote: On 5/19/15 Richard Welty rwe...@averillpark.net wrote: they probably shouldn't be in an administrative boundary