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No shapefile for Saint Louis Independent City

Open tmcelrath opened this issue 9 months ago • 4 comments

Feature or enhancement

There is no shapefile/geographic area for Saint Louis independent city. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/St._Louis

There is one for Saint Louis County, but not the independent city.

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Screenshot, napkin sketch of interface, or conceptual description

Need a shapefile

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tmcelrath avatar May 03 '24 15:05 tmcelrath

We don't have levels below county in the gazeteer. Is the city a 2nd or 3rd level subdivision?

mjy avatar May 03 '24 16:05 mjy

Equivalent to county. There is no county for the city of St. Louis so there is no shape file for this area.

tmcelrath avatar May 03 '24 17:05 tmcelrath

some big cities has separate shape. Moscow for example, and yes, they are at the level 2.

proceps avatar May 03 '24 18:05 proceps

Turtles all the way down.

mjy avatar May 03 '24 18:05 mjy