On Oct 25, 2012, at 12:30 PM, Martijn van Exel wrote: > Hi all, > > I want to do a more thorough look into TIGER ghost towns and am > thinking about a town-by-town analysis. For that I need proper 'town' > boundaries. I like the ones you get when you search for a place on > Google Maps: > > https://maps.google.com/maps?q=princeton,+nj > https://maps.google.com/maps?q=nederland,+co > > What are these boundaries? I am guessing it is some kind of Census division?
It's likely to be a Census "place", non-continuous areas that can cross other boundaries are intended to represent logical towns and cities. http://www2.census.gov/geo/tiger/TIGER2012/PLACE/ -mike. ---------------------------------------------------------------- michal migurski- contact info and pgp key: sf/ca http://mike.teczno.com/contact.html _______________________________________________ Talk-us mailing list Talk-us@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-us
