<div class="gmail_extra"><br><br><div class="gmail_quote">Op 24 april 2012 16:44 schreef Pieren <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:pieren3@gmail.com" target="_blank">pieren3@gmail.com</a>></span> het volgende:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
<div class="im">On Tue, Apr 24, 2012 at 4:20 PM, Martin Koppenhoefer<br>
<<a href="mailto:dieterdreist@gmail.com">dieterdreist@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br>
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> if neighbourhood is missleading, you could invent a place=block below<br>
> neighbourhood. "neighbourhood" seems to be interpreted differently in<br>
> different cultural backgrounds. Personally I always saw it as a<br>
> relatively small entity, smaller than a quarter which would be smaller<br>
> than a suburb.<br>
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</div>It seems that neighbourhood/district/quarter are very closed and hard<br>
to translate (as you say, it's cultural). But the "block" seems to be<br>
easy to define since it is the smallest area defined by a street grid.<br>
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Pieren</font></span><br></blockquote><div><br>It isn't always that easy to define. It's possible that paths or maybe service roads run through blocks. And it's also possible that a block on the outside of a town is only surrounded with 3 streets.<br>
<br>I would go for relations which define the boundaries. As most of the time, the boundaries are streets, almost no extra ways are needed. <br></div></div></div>