[Talk-us] Retagging hamlets in the US

[Bryce Nesbitt]

On Tue, Mar 24, 2015 at 4:41 AM, Martin Koppenhoefer <dieterdreist at gmail.com
> wrote:

>
> 2015-03-22 4:00 GMT+01:00 Clifford Snow <clifford at snowandsnow.us>:
>
>> At its most basic, OSM is a geospatial database. We have countries,
>> states, counties, and cities. Why not neighborhoods. OSM tells where a
>> feature is located. Points can only tell us how close a feature is to a
>> node. Using nodes to represent neighborhoods doesn't allow with any
>> certainty where a feature is located while a polygon can.
>
>
Points are too general.
Polygons are too specific.

Jeeze.  One could invent something in between: an approximate radius point
or a fuzzy polygon.

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Please don't assume because your particular neighborhood has (insert one:
fuzzy boundaries, exact legal boundaries,
well understood boundaries, an edit war about the boundary, a name used
only for a railroad outhouse building in 1850)
that there is only One True Solution.
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