[OSM-newbies] Getting a list of neighborhoods within a city?

[Stewart C. Russell]

On 14-10-23 11:04 AM, Simone Cortesi wrote:
> I would run this query against http://overpass-turbo.eu/ : place=* in
> "San Francisco, CA, USA" 

You'll get a lot of ways that just touch that area, too. I tried it for
my town in Canada, and it brought in most of the Lake Ontario coastline
down to upper New York. If you substitute "place=neighbourhood" for
"place=*" you'll get a more manageable result — but many neighbourhoods
are just marked as nodes, not closed ways.

cheers,
  Stewart