<html><head></head><body>It might be best to allow neighborhoods to be either polygons or points. Some neighborhoods have a customary boundary line, such as a particular street or waterway. Some are legally defined. Some just represent an approximate location, meaning that a point will work better than a polygon. In some cases, there may be more than one traditional name for an area, with slightly different connotations (for example, one term may refer to a very limited area, while another covers a broader area, including the small neighborhood mentioned above).<br>
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<div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_extra"><br /><div class="gmail_quote">On Tue, Jun 11, 2013 at 5:47 PM, william skora <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:skorasaurus@gmail.com" target="_blank">skorasaurus@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br />
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left-width:1px;border-left-color:rgb(204,204,204);border-left-style:solid;padding-left:1ex"><div>Given the subjective, fluid nature of neighborhoods - especially boundaries - where one neighborhood ends and one begins - may change from person to person, they are best represented as a single node in the area where there is greatest consensus that the neighborhood is located. This can be very roughly estimated by OSM mappers who locally live in or near the area. <br />
</div></blockquote></div><br />One reason for including boundaries is querying to determine what exists in a neighborhood. Another is to see the result from a search using nominatim. A single node doesn't really tell much of a story, while a boundary give a better scope of the neighborhood. It might be more compelling for 3rd parties to use our information if we included the boundaries. They in turn give us greater visibility. And while the boundaries may not be exact, people can always change them!<h4 style="margin:10px 0px 0px;padding:0px 20px 10px;border-width:0px 0px 1px;border-bottom-style:solid;border-bottom-color:rgb(221,221,221);font-size:13.513513565063477px;line-height:1.5;font-family:'Helvetica Neue',Arial,sans-serif">
<br /></h4><br clear="all" /><div><br /></div>-- <br /><div>Clifford</div><div><br /></div><div>OpenStreetMap: Maps with a human touch</div>
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