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The county lists are wrong, at least they are for my state of New Jersey. We have 21 counties, not 27. Is it picking up the bordering counties that might have o

The county lists are wrong, at least they are for my state of New Jersey. We have 21 counties, not 27. Is it picking up the bordering counties that might have overlapping contracts or something?

pavel_lishin 10mo ago
One of those counties is Rockland, which is in NY. I wonder if it's counting bordering counties for states, since the assumption may be that the closest essential services for some Rockland residents may be in New Jersey.
- joecool1029 10mo ago
  I know at least in Rockland's case, their power utility extends slightly into NJ. Can see it on statewide power outage trackers like this one: https://projects.nj.com/data/outagetracker/ https://projects.nj.com/data/outagetracker/
- sodality2 10mo ago
  Ah! This looks like a bug with cross-border calculations. Ideally it would not show a Rockland County, NJ - it might cross state borders to perform calculations but they should all have a 'home state' that matches to the right county. Thanks for the example case, I'll work on a fix
sodality2 10mo ago
It pulls counties from OSM administrative boundaries of level 6, which according to the OSM wiki, is "State counties and county equivalents, Territorial municipalities" (https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Tag%3aboundary=administrative https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Tag%3aboundary=administr...). It does lead to some weird oddities, like counties with under 10 homes... I'd rather not manually correct it, since I want to rely on pure OSM data. (Unless you mean there is an actual bug in the processing and there's counties listed that aren't in the right states...) I'll add a link to the OSM relation for the county to each county page, so you can see the source data on OSM to verify/edit.
- eesmith 10mo ago
  There are also not 53 states.
mv4 10mo ago
yeah we have 8 counties in CT, not 14. The names are also wrong.
- sodality2 10mo ago
  As far as I know there's no easy fix to this. It's the counties as reported by OpenStreetMaps' administrative boundaries.
cjensen 10mo ago
California includes a number of counties which are actually in Baja California and Baja California del Sur.

The county lists are wrong, at least they are for my state of New Jersey. We have 21 counties, not 27. Is it picking up the bordering counties that might have overlapping contracts or something?

pavel_lishin 10mo ago

One of those counties is Rockland, which is in NY. I wonder if it's counting bordering counties for states, since the assumption may be that the closest essential services for some Rockland residents may be in New Jersey.

joecool1029 10mo ago
I know at least in Rockland's case, their power utility extends slightly into NJ. Can see it on statewide power outage trackers like this one: https://projects.nj.com/data/outagetracker/ https://projects.nj.com/data/outagetracker/
sodality2 10mo ago
Ah! This looks like a bug with cross-border calculations. Ideally it would not show a Rockland County, NJ - it might cross state borders to perform calculations but they should all have a 'home state' that matches to the right county. Thanks for the example case, I'll work on a fix

sodality2 10mo ago

It pulls counties from OSM administrative boundaries of level 6, which according to the OSM wiki, is "State counties and county equivalents, Territorial municipalities" (https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Tag%3aboundary=administrative https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Tag%3aboundary=administr...). It does lead to some weird oddities, like counties with under 10 homes... I'd rather not manually correct it, since I want to rely on pure OSM data. (Unless you mean there is an actual bug in the processing and there's counties listed that aren't in the right states...) I'll add a link to the OSM relation for the county to each county page, so you can see the source data on OSM to verify/edit.

eesmith 10mo ago
There are also not 53 states.

mv4 10mo ago

yeah we have 8 counties in CT, not 14. The names are also wrong.

sodality2 10mo ago
As far as I know there's no easy fix to this. It's the counties as reported by OpenStreetMaps' administrative boundaries.

cjensen 10mo ago

California includes a number of counties which are actually in Baja California and Baja California del Sur.