United States City\Town\Village Shape Files???

[Adam]

I've been looking everywhere and can't find shape files for all the towns in
the United States.  I have found incorporated cities and county subdivisions
but that's not quite town\city\village boundaries.

Does this dataset exist for free?

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Bob Basques" <bob.basques at CI.STPAUL.MN.US>
To: <MAPSERVER-USERS at lists.umn.edu>
Sent: Wednesday, December 28, 2005 6:50 PM
Subject: [UMN_MAPSERVER-USERS] Sort of MapServer related . . Stacked, or
coincident points . . .


> All,
>
> I need a way to handle a stacked point data set.  I'm working with a
> Address dataset that has some points that are stacked in the same spot.
> A few of them have hundreds of points in the same location, IE Apt.
> Buildings, etc.
>
> Has anyone worked with a similar dataset before from MapServer?
>
> We have some ideas about how to display the data.  Nothing concrete
> yet.  The current system relies on ImageMaps for the display of the
> point data via a MapServer Template.  This works for the first (last
> ImageMap record) in the imagemap, but how to view the other point
> records from the same point.   We're in the mode right now to build some
> Javascript handlers for a XML stream from MapServer, but this seems like
> overkill for some reason.
>
> The dataset is such that I can't seperate the different points very
> easily, nor should they I think.
>
> Any ideas out there?
>
> bobb
>