Re: [Talk-us] County borders vs. State borders

2011-10-22 Thread Alexander Roalter
On 10/21/2011 03:27 PM, Toby Murray wrote: On Fri, Oct 21, 2011 at 5:29 AM, Alexander Roalter wrote: I'll be pushing Michigan back for a bit and continue westwards of Iowa. FYI I've already relationalized the counties in most states west of Iowa. The first few I did I did not combine with the

Re: [Talk-us] County borders vs. State borders

2011-10-21 Thread Toby Murray
On Fri, Oct 21, 2011 at 5:29 AM, Alexander Roalter wrote: > I'll be pushing Michigan back for a bit and continue westwards of Iowa. FYI I've already relationalized the counties in most states west of Iowa. The first few I did I did not combine with the state boundaries though. I was planning on d

Re: [Talk-us] County borders vs. State borders

2011-10-21 Thread Alexander Roalter
Am 18.10.2011 13:43, schrieb Greg Troxel: I would recommend contacting the MN state gis department, which might be part of the state highway department. There are probably people there who understand the rules and can point you to them. Someone from MassGIS was very helpful when I had question

Re: [Talk-us] County borders vs. State borders

2011-10-18 Thread Brad Neuhauser
OK, "hoping" would be more accurate than "assuming" :) Thanks for finding the general statutes online, Nathan! On Tue, Oct 18, 2011 at 8:51 AM, Nathan Edgars II wrote: > On 10/18/2011 8:44 AM, Brad Neuhauser wrote: > >> the Census has county boundaries going to the state border with WI/MI, >>

Re: [Talk-us] County borders vs. State borders

2011-10-18 Thread Nathan Edgars II
On 10/18/2011 8:44 AM, Brad Neuhauser wrote: the Census has county boundaries going to the state border with WI/MI, and I'm assuming they did their homework. Don't assume anything when it comes to TIGER. Anyway, Cook County was defined in 1874 to include the water to the state line: http:/

Re: [Talk-us] County borders vs. State borders

2011-10-18 Thread Brad Neuhauser
About Minnesota's counties on Lake Superior, the Census has county boundaries going to the state border with WI/MI, and I'm assuming they did their homework. Still, I'll try to double check the legal definitions today. Brad On Tue, Oct 18, 2011 at 6:43 AM, Greg Troxel wrote: > > I would recomme

Re: [Talk-us] County borders vs. State borders

2011-10-18 Thread Greg Troxel
I would recommend contacting the MN state gis department, which might be part of the state highway department. There are probably people there who understand the rules and can point you to them. Someone from MassGIS was very helpful when I had questions about town lines. As an example which won

Re: [Talk-us] County borders vs. State borders

2011-10-18 Thread Greg Troxel
Alexander Roalter writes: > Shouldn't county borders always coincide with state borders? In the > case of the Minnesota/Iowa border, there were often differences up to > 150 meters. I then used the state borders as the 'better' solution and > extended/capped the county lines. What would be the b

Re: [Talk-us] County borders vs. State borders

2011-10-18 Thread Richard Welty
On 10/18/11 5:43 AM, Alexander Roalter wrote: I recently started converting the Iowa and Minnesota county borders from simple ways to correct boundary relations, which means also removing the doubled ways the adjacent areas share. So far, so good, but I encountered some questions: Shouldn't c

[Talk-us] County borders vs. State borders

2011-10-18 Thread Alexander Roalter
I recently started converting the Iowa and Minnesota county borders from simple ways to correct boundary relations, which means also removing the doubled ways the adjacent areas share. So far, so good, but I encountered some questions: Shouldn't county borders always coincide with state border