<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html charset=us-ascii"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><div><br><blockquote type="cite">Date: Tue, 11 Jun 2013 19:38:29 -0500<br>From: Paul Johnson <<a href="mailto:baloo@ursamundi.org">baloo@ursamundi.org</a>><br>To: Darrell Fuhriman <<a href="mailto:darrell@garnix.org">darrell@garnix.org</a>><br>Cc: Martijn van Exel <<a href="mailto:m@rtijn.org">m@rtijn.org</a>>, OpenStreetMap Talk-US Mailing List<br><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span><<a href="mailto:talk-us@openstreetmap.org">talk-us@openstreetmap.org</a>><br>Subject: Re: [Talk-us] Neighborhoods / Zillow<br>Message-ID:<br><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span><<a href="mailto:CAMPM96rhaacHyMoEdwq+BxNaFVR5yhAsYKAenpLag4cS0GKrvw@mail.gmail.com">CAMPM96rhaacHyMoEdwq+BxNaFVR5yhAsYKAenpLag4cS0GKrvw@mail.gmail.com</a>><br>Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1"<br><br>On Tue, Jun 11, 2013 at 3:25 PM, Darrell Fuhriman <<a href="mailto:darrell@garnix.org">darrell@garnix.org</a>>wrote:<br><br><blockquote type="cite">But how would such a thing be tagged?<br><br></blockquote><br>By boundary, what's the next level below city?<br><br><br><blockquote type="cite">For instance, here in Portland, we have defined neighborhoods, which have<br>neighborhood associations, and a city bureau (the Office of Neighborhood<br>Involvement) dedicated to working with those organizations. They are, in a<br>very real, if not technically legal sense, administrative units of the City.<br><br></blockquote><br>Portland calls them "districts", with the exception of the "Rose Quarter,"<br>but there's no distinction between district and quarter in the Portland<br>sense, and they do have defined boundaries. Pretty sure ONI would be happy<br>to point you in the right direction.<br></blockquote></div><br><div>Many new "neighborhoods" are built by a single builder and are conveniently named, Arbor Heights for example, <a href="http://www.openstreetmap.org/?lat=45.55768&lon=-122.81313&zoom=17&layers=M">http://www.openstreetmap.org/?lat=45.55768&lon=-122.81313&zoom=17&layers=M</a>. Group several of these together to form an, um, neighborhood.</div><div><br></div><div>-Dion</div></body></html>