So I've recently been working on fixing up the boundary of Los Angeles City. It turn out that the boundaries imported in the area included separate boundaries for census-designated places (CDPs). With the understanding that CDPs exist solely for census purposes, I've dealt with the first issue I ran into (the contiguous Ladera Heights and View Park–Windsor Hills) by eliminating the separate relations and leaving only nodes (as asked 10 Feb '14, 09:16  Circeus |
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You probably should bring this up on the talk-us mailing list. Way more traffic on this type of thing there than here. answered 16 Apr '14, 05:31  n76 edited 16 Apr '14, 21:32  Frederik Ramm ♦ |
Considering that OSM data is sometimes used for purposes other than routing, I would recommend leaving CDPs in place. I can conceive of uses for OSM that might need that information. But then, that's just my opinion. answered 15 Apr '14, 21:23  Jack the Ripper |
This question is stongly related to country-specific tagging and practices (boundaries). I would recommend to wait until a US experienced contributor replies here or forward the question to the US mailing list https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-us