Disappearing Towns…

December 11th, 2006

Here’s an interesting piece from CNN:

“A total of 488 communities have been erased from the latest version of Georgia’s official map, victims of too few people and too many letters of type.

Georgia’s Department of Transportation, which drew the new map, said that the goal was to make it clearer and less cluttered and that many of the dropped communities were mere ‘placeholders,’ generally with fewer than 2,500 people. Some are unincorporated and so small they are not even recognized by the Census Bureau.”

Does a town need to have citizenry in order to “exist”? I’d be pissed if my town was wiped out. Where’s the accountability from the map providers and the state. Geez.

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