I am curious what tools other editors use in SC for things like city boundaries, road types, road names, etc. I’m aware of the census data, but was wondering if there were tools specific to SC that y’all use. I’m trying to get more into editing (been off and on for a few years) and improve my edits. Also, another slightly unrelated question, what “types” of cities are we entering only incorporated towns, or should we also use census designated places, or be even more permissive?
My vote is to get rid of the CDP’s, especially around the Greenville area they’re really cluttering the map.
I just got https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/wme-color-highlights for finding/filtering segments based on city name. You still have to edit them one by one, though. And be careful not to edit the city of roads with different names at the same time, you’ll wipe the street names away.
What I’d like to know is where I can find maps that reference the city limits.
I plan on going through and ‘cleaning up’ the map of all the roads that have no name or direction set, deleting unnecessary junctions, adding necessary junctions, etc. I could easily be adjusting city names as I do this as well. I just need a standard and a map to follow, like with the functional specification map (which I’ve already completed for my editable area.)
Here are the current Census maps for SC, which are broken down by county and show the city limits.
Awesome! A bit hard to read, but better than anything I’ve found on my own.
Now it’s just a matter of whether we want CDP’s on the map or not. =/