The St Louis County Planning Department, St Louis Planning and Urban Design Agency, St Louis Regional Chamber of Commerce and Growth Association, and US Post Office all have different definitions of the boundaries of "St Louis" even though it has one of the oldest most clearly defined geographic boundaries in the United States. Among the 91 cities in our county, there have been 54 boundary disputes resolved within the past 3 years, and 489 such disputes in the last 50 years (the use of GIS is leading to the discovery of more boundary discrepancies). Just because there is disagreement over a boundary does not mean that those boundaries do not exist and are not well defined.
Brett Lord-Castillo Information Systems Designer/GIS Programmer St. Louis County Police Office of Emergency Management 14847 Ladue Bluffs Crossing Drive Chesterfield, MO 63017 Office: 314-628-5400 Fax: 314-628-5508 Direct: 314-628-5407 -----Original Message----- Date: Fri, 12 Nov 2010 07:00:40 -0500 From: Nathan Edgars II <[email protected]> To: Serge Wroclawski <[email protected]> Cc: Talk Openstreetmap <[email protected]> Subject: Re: [Talk-us] Proposal: delete census-designated place polygons Message-ID: <[email protected]> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Silver_Spring,_Maryland#Geography "The definitions used by the Silver Spring Urban Planning District, the United States Postal Service, the Greater Silver Spring Chamber of Commerce, etc., are all different, each defining it for its own purposes." Which one do you "know"? _______________________________________________ Talk-us mailing list [email protected] http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-us
