<html><body bgcolor="#FFFFFF"><div>It could easilly be expanded to how addresses are described in Brazil, but than it must import more than street names. I.e. Avenida Jones Santos Neves infront of Casas Bahia (large chain of furniture and home equipment stores), or the hill next to Bradesco (bank).<br><br><div>Aun Y. Johnsen</div>Sent from my iPad</div><div><br>On 4. apr. 2011, at 04:59, Martijn van Exel <<a href="mailto:m@rtijn.org">m@rtijn.org</a>> wrote:<br><br></div><div></div><blockquote type="cite"><div>Neat and potentially very useful. I wonder how well it translates to non-US / non-urban spatial contexts. Take our local situation here in Amsterdam. The street layout is completely different – hence all the clueless American tourists on every street corner ;) – and people are not thinking in terms of intersections when they are giving directions or orienting themselves. <div>
Even so, a service that comes up with a best guess vernacular name for a neighborhood would be very useful. I don't know of one service or dataset, commercial or otherwise, that does this well for Amsterdam. Yahoo! GeoPlanet is a joke. Official neighborhood polygons are available but the naming does not correspond to the colloquial naming. </div>
<div>I've been thinking about what data could be used to make such a service useful for the Amsterdam / NL / European context. It would probably need to look at named place features (polys / nodes) in OSM first, then possibly the flickr alpha shapes (didn't you have something to do with those?), and if that all fails look at the nearest primary / secondary road, square or other spatial landmark in OSM.</div>
<div>I might give this a try.</div><div>Martijn<br><div><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Mon, Apr 4, 2011 at 7:08 AM, Michal Migurski <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:mike@stamen.com"><a href="mailto:mike@stamen.com">mike@stamen.com</a></a>></span> wrote:<br>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex;">Mike Frumin put together a neat service that generates human-readable names based on nearby OSM ways:<br>
<a href="http://frumin.net/ation/2011/04/openstreetblock.html" target="_blank"><a href="http://frumin.net/ation/2011/04/openstreetblock.html">http://frumin.net/ation/2011/04/openstreetblock.html</a></a><br>
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I makes strings like "14th St between 6th Ave and 7th Ave", currently just for NYC data.<br>
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-mike.<br>
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