[Talk-us] Admin Level for Neighborhoods?

[David ``Smith'']

On Thu, Dec 3, 2009 at 3:29 PM, Randy <rwtnospam-newsgp at yahoo.com> wrote:
> David ``Smith'' wrote:
>
>>On Tue, Dec 1, 2009 at 9:37 AM, Ian Dees <ian.dees at gmail.com> wrote:
>>>Has anyone decided on a admin_level to tag for neighborhoods in a city?
>>>
>>>I'd like to import some neighborhood boundary data that my local
>>>municipalities have given out.
>>
>>Assuming these neighborhoods do indeed have some kind of
>>administrating body, I'd use admin_level=10.
>
> Ah, but what if they do not have a administrative body. Most neighborhoods
> have, at most, a neighborhood association, which has no legal
> administrative authority, but acts as a common voice to the city for its
> citizens, and may perform other functions (such as, in our case,
> negotiating a group natural gas extraction lease for the residents, or
> purchasing street sign toppers that have the name of the neighborhood).
> Still, the boundaries of the neighborhoods are recognized by, and, in
> fact, usually established by the city.

Then tag the area (be it a single closed way, or a multipolygon
relation) with landuse=residential for primarily residential
neighborhoods/subdivisions, or place=locality for mixed-use
neighborhoods, and name=*.  The exact boundaries of the neighborhood
won't be visible on the default renderers, but they'll be there in the
data for any user who wants a map with those details.  And there
should be a nice label in the center of the neighborhood in Mapnik (if
it doesn't conflict with another label) and Osmarender/T at H.

I've done this for quite a few developments south of Hilliard, OH:
<http://osm.org/go/ZWDz@KdZ->.  Note, there are many areas I haven't
drawn/tagged yet.  And there are some areas I've drawn which I know
have names, but I don't know them personally.  It's a work in
progress.

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David "Smith"
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