In Baltimore County, MD, we have 0 incorporated towns with nearly 1M people. There are however plenty of informal towns that have become CDPs. I believe the Census uses ZCTAs to construct the CDPs, so they're based on ZIP Codes, which in turn are based on postal routes.
I think humans tend to like boundaries in general, so it is probably natural they end up on OSM. I think that if people identify with them, and there are no other admin boundaries, then go for it. On Sat, Nov 9, 2013 at 7:17 PM, Serge Wroclawski <emac...@gmail.com> wrote: > On Sat, Nov 9, 2013 at 7:03 PM, Greg Troxel <g...@ir.bbn.com> wrote: > > > (I realize that in Alaska > > there are some areas where CDPs seem to matter.) > > https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bethesda%2C_Maryland > > - Serge > > _______________________________________________ > Talk-us mailing list > Talk-us@openstreetmap.org > https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-us > -- Elliott Plack http://about.me/elliottp
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