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
