There's been no reply to this. Will anyone object if I change the place tags in Florida from the type of incorporation to city if and only if it's a "principal city"?
On Wed, Oct 20, 2010 at 6:46 PM, Nathan Edgars II <[email protected]> wrote: > The US Census Bureau has something called a Statistical Area: > http://www.census.gov/population/www/metroareas/metrodef.html > The actual areas are based on county lines (except in New England), > but may have more than one "principal city". For example, the > Tampa-St. Petersburg-Clearwater, FL Metropolitan Statistical Area has > principal cities of Tampa, St. Petersburg, Clearwater, and Largo, and > the Albany-Lebanon, OR Micropolitan Statistical Area has principal > cities of Albany and Lebanon. This gives us two levels of importance > for these "principal cities" - those that are part of a Metropolitan > Statistical Area and those that are part of a Micropolitan Statistical > Area. (Note that a principal city can be a town or even an > unincorporated census-designated place.) The main disadvantage I can > find is that these are based on population, and may omit historically > important places; for example, St. Augustine is within the > Jacksonville, FL Metropolitan Statistical Area, but is not a principal > city, while the significantly more populous but much newer Palm Coast > (to the south) has its own MSA. > > If you're interested in the topic, please take a look at > http://www.whitehouse.gov/sites/default/files/omb/assets/bulletins/b10-02.pdf > (lists starting on pages 29, 64, and (for New England) 141) and see if > it roughly matches your idea of what the major cities are in your > area. > _______________________________________________ Talk-us mailing list [email protected] http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-us
