It just occurred to me that they might be following zip code boundaries.
In auto insurance, the whole state is divided into "territories" that are gerrymandered by the insurance industry to group highest risk areas together. In Pennsylvania, this results in things like this description of what comprises territory 01:
It's almost impossible to know what territory you live in. Imagine you were planning to buy a house and wanted to live in one of the "cheaper" territories. Good luck.
In California and a few other states, the people got fed up with this crap and made them change it all to a zipcode based system. As a result, boundary lines are a bit jagged.
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Re: just for local interest
Date: 2004-06-25 07:26 pm (UTC)In auto insurance, the whole state is divided into "territories" that are gerrymandered by the insurance industry to group highest risk areas together. In Pennsylvania, this results in things like this description of what comprises territory 01:
It's almost impossible to know what territory you live in. Imagine you were planning to buy a house and wanted to live in one of the "cheaper" territories. Good luck.
In California and a few other states, the people got fed up with this crap and made them change it all to a zipcode based system. As a result, boundary lines are a bit jagged.