[Talk-us] NYC neighborhood data

[Simon Poole]

Kushal

welcome to OSM. Please feel free to improve our data, while adding the
neighbourhoods as a first project is going to result in a fairly steep
learning curve for you, it is certainly doable.

Unluckily the map used in Wikipedia is unlikely to be usable directly in
OSM for licence reasons,  however you could either refer to the PD maps
that were used in creating it or simply ask the original author for
permission to include the information in OSM.

Simon

Am 05.04.2013 21:36, schrieb Kushal Khan:
>
> Hi,
>
> I really love your site, but wanted to help with some updates. Some of
> the neighborhood data for NYC is  inaccurate. For example,
> http://nominatim. openstreetmap.org/reverse
> <http://openstreetmap.org/reverse>? osm_type=N&osm_id=2184804432 is
> not in the Diamond District nor Chelsea - it's in Midtown East. Also
> http://nominatim.openstreetmap.org/reverse?
> osm_type=N&osm_id=2184803604 is not in Chatham Towers nor Greenwich
> Village - it's in Soho.
>
> If you want a benchmark source for creating admin boundaries, I feel
> this wikipedia link is very accurate with determining borders of
> neighborhood: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_
> Manhattan_neighborhoods (the image displayed in 'Full resolution' is
> useful), but the wiki provides excessive sub-neighborhood detail
> impractical to the way most New Yorkers think. I feel this site has a
> good concept of practical neighborhood breakdowns: http://www.
> nyctourist.com/map1.htm <http://nyctourist.com/map1.htm>, maybe this
> with the borders defined on wikipedia can serve as a reference guide.
>
> I know neighborhood distinctions can be a very subjective issue, but
> the current info on openstreetmaps is materially inaccurate. I love
> the concept of your site and want to contribute.
>
> Please let me know if I can assist any further.
>
> Regards,
> Kushal
>
>
>
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