CDPs in OSM have been an ongoing issue of discussion for a while. NE2 stated that he would delete them all unless someone could show him a single example of them being useful.
I pointed out that Bethesda, MD (noted for being where the NIH and the Naval Medical Academy, along with several other large landmarks) is a CDP, as is Silver Spring, MD, which is the 2nd most dense place in MD except for Baltimore. After some discussion, he agreed not to delete the objects in the whole US. The general feeling from many people were that the CDPs were useless information- only interesting to the census workers and not the regular people on the street. For them, it probably made sense to delete the CDPs. For places where CDPs do make sense to keep in, it would be sad if someone deleted them, but that's likely what happened. This is (yet another) reason why I believe so strongly in Ian's effort to move government boundary data out of OSM and into another dataset. - Serge _______________________________________________ Talk-us mailing list [email protected] https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-us
