[Talk-us] Neighborhoods / Zillow

[Bryce Nesbitt]

On Fri, Jun 14, 2013 at 2:22 AM, Martin Koppenhoefer <dieterdreist at gmail.com
> wrote:

>
> 2013/6/14 Bryce Nesbitt <bryce2 at obviously.com>
>
>> The OSM node could even link to a wiki page where the neighborhood can be
>> described in all its richness and complexity.
>
>

> you could do this with wikipedia links. My usecase would be to enter an
> address in a search field and get information about the neighbourhoods the
> results are located in. Given the huge differences in shape and extension
> of place areas I'd rather prefer an unprecise and to some extend subjective
> polygon than a node that doesn't convey the necessary information to get an
> idea where it is valid for (especially in a setting like osm, where you
> always have missing information bits).
>

A point node plus a wikipedia link hits maybe 95% of the use cases, and is
clean.  I think polygons just mess things up.

But if you insist :-) here's a way to ensure they don't overlap.  Just
distort the map a bit.  Nobody will mind :-)
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