Re: [Talk-us] Representing census-designated places (CDP), Census County Division (CCD), etc

2016-04-29 Thread Phil! Gold
* Nelson A. de Oliveira [2016-04-28 16:24 -0300]: > Do you represent [CDPs] (and maybe other statistical boundaries) in OSM? > If yes, what are you using? (boundary=?, border_type=?, etc) As people have indicated, practices vary. I live in a region where very few named

Re: [Talk-us] Representing census-designated places (CDP), Census County Division (CCD), etc

2016-04-28 Thread Elliott Plack
The approach to CDPs varies. Since the boundaries are only for statistics and I'd argue that CDP boundaries are not really even boundaries in an administrative sense. Still, the places often provide some value to the map, such as place names. I like having them as points, at the CDP centroid, as

Re: [Talk-us] Representing census-designated places (CDP), Census County Division (CCD), etc

2016-04-28 Thread Paul Norman
On 4/28/2016 12:24 PM, Nelson A. de Oliveira wrote: We are having a discussion about representing statistical boundaries in Brazil and while trying to search for similar cases I found that your CDP (maybe CCD too) seems to be similar: "They don't have any legal status, or represent the

[Talk-us] Representing census-designated places (CDP), Census County Division (CCD), etc

2016-04-28 Thread Nelson A. de Oliveira
Hi! We are having a discussion about representing statistical boundaries in Brazil and while trying to search for similar cases I found that your CDP (maybe CCD too) seems to be similar: "They don't have any legal status, or represent the jurisdiction of any government. CDPs are created by the