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if you need the boundaries for places that don’t already exist, there may be a few ways to get those (in order of what i think is best to worst practice):

  1. look online for the municipality’s website and see if they have a GIS or Open Data portal. often, such portals will have administrative boundaries defined in some sort of electronic format which can uploaded as an iNat place.
  2. (for US cities) you usually can turn to Census Data as a fairly reliable source for boundaries. see: https://forum.inaturalist.org/t/creating-a-place-for-your-us-city-using-census-bureau-geography-data/21927.
  3. you can often get boundaries from OpenStreetMap. these boundaries may or may not be from official sources though. see: https://forum.inaturalist.org/t/new-limits-to-place-creation/24878/15
  4. sometimes in ArcGIS Online’s generic open data portal, you’ll be able to find boundaries
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