<div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; border-collapse: collapse; white-space: nowrap; -webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 2px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 2px; ">Apollinaris, our boundaries have a classification system we roughed out. How well they would mesh with OSM is something I'd love to hear a critique on. </span></div>
<div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; border-collapse: collapse; white-space: nowrap; -webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 2px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 2px; ">Simplifying things a bit, the taxonomy of our database is two tiers: Neighborhoods and Regions. Neighborhoods come in three types: 1, parts</span></div>
<div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; border-collapse: collapse; white-space: nowrap; -webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 2px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 2px; ">of a city; 2, complete cities; 3, unincorporated areas. And each neighborhood (i.e. Santa Monica) belongs to a larger region (i.e. The Westside).</span></div>
<div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; border-collapse: collapse; white-space: nowrap; -webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 2px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 2px; ">The regions are, by design, untied from any municipal boundaries, since the general sense in LA is that many of the commonly understood</span></div>
<div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; border-collapse: collapse; white-space: nowrap; -webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 2px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 2px; ">regions are broken up into several cities. A great example is the San Fernando Valley, which has a small island in the middle, namely the city of San Fernando. </span></div>
<div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="arial, sans-serif"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: collapse; white-space: nowrap; -webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 2px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 2px;">The strangeness of the municipal boundaries is actually one of the main reasons we wanted to do this. </span></font></div>
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</b></span></font></div>Thomas, if I understand you right, you are asking about the mapping tiles, correct? All of our mapping tiles are drawn from Google. Though we're using OpenLayers, rather than the Google API, most of the time to pull them in. In the future, I would love to make custom tiles with Mapnik and Cascadenik, but I haven't found the time. Burning our hood boundaries into the map is almost too much fun to pass up.<div>
<br></div><div><br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Wed, Jun 16, 2010 at 5:13 PM, Thomas Ineichen <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:osm.mailinglist@t-i.ch">osm.mailinglist@t-i.ch</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex;">
Hi Ben,<br>
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I'm just wondering: are the suggestions/improvements by your readers based<br>
on anything else than Google Maps?[1]<br>
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Regards,<br>
Thomas<br>
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[1] e.g.<br>
<a href="http://projects.latimes.com/mapping-la/debates/westside/#comment-form" target="_blank">http://projects.latimes.com/mapping-la/debates/westside/#comment-form</a><br>
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