[Talk-us] Neighborhoods / Zillow

[Mike N]

On 6/11/2013 2:58 PM, Martijn van Exel wrote:
> OSM has pretty poor neighborhood coverage in the US. We have around 1100
> place=neighbo[u]rhood. Geonames has ten times that at 11,000 (feature
> class P.PPLX - not sure if all of those are neighborhoods) and Zillow
> has 7,000.

    The TIGER import brought in many subdivisions as Hamlets, so the 
some information is there but is not necessarily the best form.

   I'm not clear myself on how to tag the classic US subdivision and 
apartment complex.

   I try to change these to areas when possible so that Nominatim-style 
searches doesn't identify nearby POIs outside the boundary as belonging 
to the nearest neighborhood.   Often, I can't determine the subdivision 
boundary from either Bing or a survey; I'd need to see an organization 
map which would be of questionable license.