[Talk-us] Neighborhoods / Zillow

[Martijn van Exel]

Russ -- Yes, MR2 will have the ability to work on a specific location
(likely to be specified as a point + radius, or bbox).
What do you mean by correlating place values, correlating with what?
Rural areas are not as important for neighborhood coverage I would say.


On Tue, Jun 11, 2013 at 1:37 PM, Russell Deffner <
Russell at russelldeffnerconsulting.com> wrote:

>  I think this is a good idea but have some suggested considerations.****
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> 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.****
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> =Russ****
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> russdeffner on OSM****
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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****
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> Hiya,****
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> 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.****
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> Martijn****
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