You may want http://www2.census.gov/geo/tiger/TIGER2012/PLACE/ For a more direct download. All the other tiger downloads are available by browsing from there.
Dale On Thu, Oct 25, 2012 at 3:57 PM, Martijn van Exel <m...@rtijn.org> wrote: > Would those be the same ones you download here > http://www.census.gov/geo/www/tiger/tgrshp2010/2010DP1.html (under > Places, County Subdivisions and Related Areas)? > > That link is a geodatabase, but already has population etc so would be > useful for ghost town ranking. > > Martijn > > On Thu, Oct 25, 2012 at 1:49 PM, Michal Migurski <m...@teczno.com> wrote: > > 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 > > > > -- > martijn van exel > http://oegeo.wordpress.com > > _______________________________________________ > Talk-us mailing list > Talk-us@openstreetmap.org > http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-us > -- Dale Puch
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