<div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Tue, Mar 24, 2015 at 7:46 AM, Kevin Kenny <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:kkenny2@nycap.rr.com" target="_blank">kkenny2@nycap.rr.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div id=":349" class="a3s" style="overflow:hidden">Or follow the obvious rule: Let the local mappers decide.<br>
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Use point features for indeterminate things.<br>
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In areas where neighborhoods have borders that are identifiable on the ground, map the borders. Some neighborhoods are gated. Some are signed. Some, all the locals understand, are bounded by major streets. Many subdivisions, even if not signed, have homogeneous enough architecture that the borders are obvious. And some cities try to foster neighborhood identity and specifically identify neighborhoods, even where the neighborhoods are not legal political entities.<br>
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Don't decide as an armchair mapper that you know better than the locals. This goes double for using a mechanical edit to "fix" what the locals have done. Fix only what you can see is wrong on the ground (or what you can't see on the ground at all). This sort of fixing requires boots on the ground. (I'm willing to allow an exception for repairing the damage done by ill-advised mechanical edits - but only after consultation with the locals.)</div></blockquote></div><br>+1<br><br clear="all"><div><br></div>-- <br><div class="gmail_signature"><div dir="ltr"><div>@osm_seattle<br></div><div><a href="http://osm_seattle.snowandsnow.us" target="_blank">osm_seattle.snowandsnow.us</a></div><div>OpenStreetMap: Maps with a human touch</div></div></div>
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