[Talk-us] Dealing with types of places (possibly US-specific)?

2010-08-16 Thread Nathan Edgars II
First, what's the US standard for incorporated places? Should the actual form of government (town/city/etc) be used? More importantly, how are unincorporated places handled? With respect to boundaries, census-designated places are not really suited for our use. Sometimes it's easy to define a

Re: [Talk-us] Dealing with types of places (possibly US-specific)?

2010-08-16 Thread Val Kartchner
On Mon, 2010-08-16 at 23:34 -0400, Nathan Edgars II wrote: What place=* values should be used for unincorporated places? In some states villages are incorporated; do we skip this value? Do we use suburb at all, or is everything village or hamlet? There should be something between 1000 and 2,

Re: [Talk-us] Dealing with types of places (possibly US-specific)?

2010-08-16 Thread Nathan Edgars II
On Tue, Aug 17, 2010 at 12:42 AM, Val Kartchner val...@gmail.com wrote: On Mon, 2010-08-16 at 23:34 -0400, Nathan Edgars II wrote: What place=* values should be used for unincorporated places? In some states villages are incorporated; do we skip this value? Do we use suburb at all, or is