That is true jondrush. In my state, the business addresses are almost universally the same as the postal address, which means the cities don't mean squat. I got one town named Batesburg-Leesville whose addresses are split between two zip codes, one for Batesburg and one for Leesville. To screw it up more the Leesville-side zip code also includes the town of Summit.
As for CDP's, I am NOT in favor of just eliminating them all from the map. Honestly any endeavor to standardize city naming is currently doomed to include things that don't really need inclusion and/or fail to include something important. I personally think that any place (even unincorporated) important enough to show up on a state highway map is real enough to be given a city polygon. Now there are problems with this approach in terms of how to draw the polygon, but I tend to lean towards inclusivity rather than exclusivity. And every place on a state map is real enough that the locals will have heard about it.
As far as Queen Anne goes, I'd say give both a county name and rock on. The only caveat is try and find out if anyone in the area has actually heard of Queen Anne's, Prince George's before. I know of too many CDP's that even locals have never heard of.
As for CDP's, I am NOT in favor of just eliminating them all from the map. Honestly any endeavor to standardize city naming is currently doomed to include things that don't really need inclusion and/or fail to include something important. I personally think that any place (even unincorporated) important enough to show up on a state highway map is real enough to be given a city polygon. Now there are problems with this approach in terms of how to draw the polygon, but I tend to lean towards inclusivity rather than exclusivity. And every place on a state map is real enough that the locals will have heard about it.
As far as Queen Anne goes, I'd say give both a county name and rock on. The only caveat is try and find out if anyone in the area has actually heard of Queen Anne's, Prince George's before. I know of too many CDP's that even locals have never heard of.
Re: City conflict naming update