[OSM-talk] Q: Is OSM interested in neighborhood and regional boundaries for L.A.?

[Ben Welsh]

Apollinaris, our boundaries have a classification system we roughed out. How
well they would mesh with OSM is something I'd love to hear a critique on.
Simplifying things a bit, the taxonomy of our database is two tiers:
Neighborhoods and Regions. Neighborhoods come in three types: 1, parts
of a city; 2, complete cities; 3, unincorporated areas. And each
neighborhood (i.e. Santa Monica) belongs to a larger region (i.e. The
Westside).
The regions are, by design, untied from any municipal boundaries, since the
general sense in LA is that many of the commonly understood
regions are broken up into several cities. A great example is the San
Fernando Valley, which has a small island in the middle, namely the city of
San Fernando.
The strangeness of the municipal boundaries is actually one of the main
reasons we wanted to do this.
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Thomas, if I understand you right, you are asking about the mapping tiles,
correct? All of our mapping tiles are drawn from Google. Though we're using
OpenLayers, rather than the Google API, most of the time to pull them in. In
the future, I would love to make custom tiles with Mapnik and Cascadenik,
but I haven't found the time. Burning our hood boundaries into the map is
almost too much fun to pass up.



On Wed, Jun 16, 2010 at 5:13 PM, Thomas Ineichen <osm.mailinglist at t-i.ch>wrote:

> Hi Ben,
>
> I'm just wondering: are the suggestions/improvements by your readers based
> on anything else than Google Maps?[1]
>
> Regards,
> Thomas
>
> [1] e.g.
> http://projects.latimes.com/mapping-la/debates/westside/#comment-form
>
>
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