[Talk-us] Neighborhoods / Zillow

[Martijn van Exel]

I think point features are definitely the way to go here - areas are nice
but have the drawback of being to rigid a delineation, as well as being
more difficult to map and maintain.


On Tue, Jun 11, 2013 at 2:11 PM, Bryce Nesbitt <bryce2 at obviously.com> wrote:

> On Tue, Jun 11, 2013 at 1:05 PM, Martijn van Exel <m at rtijn.org> wrote:
>
>> As for Bryce's observation - Zillow does not have overlapping polygons as
>> far as I know, so it is by its nature sort of rigid - but then again this
>> is probably what they require for their use case, as there would be no way
>> to disambiguate.
>>
>
> That said, neighborhoods are known to be fuzzy concepts, and getting a
> person close to the right one has value.  The zillow data for example could
> be brought in as point features.  While it seems a shame, it would remove
> that whole issue of boundaries.   Often (not always, but often) the
> neighborhood does in fact have a well defined central core.
>
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