[Talk-us] Neighborhoods / Zillow

[Dion Dock]

> Date: Tue, 11 Jun 2013 19:38:29 -0500
> From: Paul Johnson <baloo at ursamundi.org>
> To: Darrell Fuhriman <darrell at garnix.org>
> Cc: Martijn van Exel <m at rtijn.org>, OpenStreetMap Talk-US Mailing List
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> Subject: Re: [Talk-us] Neighborhoods / Zillow
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> On Tue, Jun 11, 2013 at 3:25 PM, Darrell Fuhriman <darrell at garnix.org>wrote:
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>> But how would such a thing be tagged?
>> 
> 
> By boundary, what's the next level below city?
> 
> 
>> For instance, here in Portland, we have defined neighborhoods, which have
>> neighborhood associations, and a city bureau (the Office of Neighborhood
>> Involvement) dedicated to working with those organizations. They are, in a
>> very real, if not technically legal sense, administrative units of the City.
>> 
> 
> Portland calls them "districts", with the exception of the "Rose Quarter,"
> but there's no distinction between district and quarter in the Portland
> sense, and they do have defined boundaries.  Pretty sure ONI would be happy
> to point you in the right direction.

Many new "neighborhoods" are built by a single builder and are conveniently named, Arbor Heights for example, http://www.openstreetmap.org/?lat=45.55768&lon=-122.81313&zoom=17&layers=M.  Group several of these together to form an, um, neighborhood.

-Dion
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