[Talk-us] Boundaries and verifiability (was Re: Retagging hamlets in the US)

[Clifford Snow]

On Tue, Mar 24, 2015 at 7:46 AM, Kevin Kenny <kkenny2 at nycap.rr.com> wrote:

> Or follow the obvious rule:  Let the local mappers decide.
>
> Use point features for indeterminate things.
>
> In areas where neighborhoods have borders that are identifiable on the
> ground, map the borders. Some neighborhoods are gated. Some are signed.
> Some, all the locals understand, are bounded by major streets. Many
> subdivisions, even if not signed, have homogeneous enough architecture that
> the borders are obvious. And some cities try to foster neighborhood
> identity and specifically identify neighborhoods, even where the
> neighborhoods are not legal political entities.
>
> Don't decide as an armchair mapper that you know better than the locals.
> This goes double for using a mechanical edit to "fix" what the locals have
> done. Fix only what you can see is wrong on the ground (or what you can't
> see on the ground at all). This sort of fixing requires boots on the
> ground. (I'm willing to allow an exception for repairing the damage done by
> ill-advised mechanical edits - but only after consultation with the locals.)
>

+1


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