[Talk-us] Neighborhoods / Zillow

[Mark Newnham]

I'm interested in this, I recently posted a question on how to map subdivisions, I'm using landuse=residential,name=Name of Subdivision to map mine.

I think it's important that for US purposes, we can distinguish between HOA managed subdivisions, which are defined as a legal entity, and all other types of indicators (hamlet, neighborhood etc). My city, (Centennial, Colorado) which is quite new, has no areas that are 'neighbourhoods', all residential areas are either subdivisions or are are defined as just a city address (for those that have no HOA. There is no naming 'creep' as someone raised in this thread. 

Mark




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 From: Martijn van Exel <m at rtijn.org>
To: Russell Deffner <Russell at russelldeffnerconsulting.com> 
Cc: OSM US Talk <talk-us at openstreetmap.org> 
Sent: Tuesday, June 11, 2013 1:56 PM
Subject: Re: [Talk-us] Neighborhoods / Zillow
 


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.
> 
>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
>russdeffner on OSM
> 
>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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