[Talk-us] Neighborhoods / Zillow

[Russell Deffner]

I think this is a good idea but have some suggested considerations.

If I remember correctly, MapRoulette 2 has the ability to localize the challenge, correct?  If/when is that available I think that would be a great challenge, just a simple “verify this is the proper neighborhood name and appropriate value”.  However, I have not seen a real good reference for correlating the place values in the US (although I haven’t looked); does someone know of one? or maybe a good first step is to try and create one.  Also I don’t think this will get us anywhere near complete as we get into rural areas we don’t know and that don’t have local mappers (and those using MR), so we may need to further do some sort of ‘challenge’ (that may not work with MR) to ‘import’/cross-reference another data set.

=Russ
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From: Martijn van Exel [mailto:m at rtijn.org]
Sent: Tuesday, June 11, 2013 12:58 PM
To: OSM US Talk
Subject: [Talk-us] Neighborhoods / Zillow

Hiya,

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. Both these data sets are provided under (different) CC licenses. Could we use either Geonames or Zillow to drive improvement to neighborhood name coverage in OSM? I am not proposing an import, but a local MapRoulette challenge might work where people with local knowledge accept / reject proposed neighborhood points, or something along those lines.

Martijn
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