<div dir="ltr">I think this is a problem more people have. In the GNIS import for populated places, a lot of apartment buildings and trailer parks are grouped together with 'real' populated places while they are really separate things for all intents and purposes. But that may also have a lot to do with lack of resolution of GNIS.</div>
<div class="gmail_extra"><br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Tue, Jun 11, 2013 at 1:07 PM, Mike N <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:niceman@att.net" target="_blank">niceman@att.net</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
<div class="im">On 6/11/2013 2:58 PM, Martijn van Exel wrote:<br>
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OSM has pretty poor neighborhood coverage in the US. We have around 1100<br>
place=neighbo[u]rhood. Geonames has ten times that at 11,000 (feature<br>
class P.PPLX - not sure if all of those are neighborhoods) and Zillow<br>
has 7,000.<br>
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The TIGER import brought in many subdivisions as Hamlets, so the some information is there but is not necessarily the best form.<br>
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I'm not clear myself on how to tag the classic US subdivision and apartment complex.<br>
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I try to change these to areas when possible so that Nominatim-style searches doesn't identify nearby POIs outside the boundary as belonging to the nearest neighborhood. Often, I can't determine the subdivision boundary from either Bing or a survey; I'd need to see an organization map which would be of questionable license.<br>
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