[Talk-us] Neighborhoods / Zillow

[Clay Smalley]

I support this. Go to Google Maps and search for SoMa, South Beach, and
Rincon Hill. The office I am sitting in right now is in all of those
polygons.

Some cities formally define their neighborhoods, and OSM could use that
data. Some neighborhoods are more informal, and those may make sense as
nodes rather than polygons.
On Jun 12, 2013 11:30 AM, "Martin Koppenhoefer" <dieterdreist at gmail.com>
wrote:

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> 2013/6/12 stevea <steveaOSM at softworkers.com>
>
>>  Is Jane Street (NYC) "in" Chelsea or Greenwich Village?  Well, kind of
>> both.  This is where nodes work better.
>>
>
>
> well, they could also overlap (so you could see from the polygons that
> there is a certain area which somehow "belongs" to both neighbourhoods (and
> probably to none of them clearly, as it is distant from both centers).
>
>
>
>>  And again, neighborhood nodes belong not in some
>> mathematically-determined "center" but rather at a "cultural crossroads"
>> that represents the "heart of the center" of that neighborhood.
>>
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>
> +1, I agree that if you have no idea where the actual boundary might be
> (perceived by the locals) it is best to put a node to where you are sure it
> is a central place for this neighbourhood.
>
> cheers,
> Martin
>
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