[OSM-talk] Names for places based on OSM - OpenStreetBlock

[Martijn van Exel]

I just looked at the Flickr alpha shapes (which saw a new release recently)
but basically for Amsterdam it's worthless. Not enough resolution. My guess
is that one could do better things with the huge amount of metadata that
they have.

On Mon, Apr 4, 2011 at 9:59 AM, Martijn van Exel <m at rtijn.org> wrote:

> Neat and potentially very useful. I wonder how well it translates to non-US
> / non-urban spatial contexts. Take our local situation here in Amsterdam.
> The street layout is completely different – hence all the clueless American
> tourists on every street corner ;) – and people are not thinking in terms of
> intersections when they are giving directions or orienting themselves.
> Even so, a service that comes up with a best guess vernacular name for a
> neighborhood would be very useful. I don't know of one service or dataset,
> commercial or otherwise, that does this well for Amsterdam. Yahoo! GeoPlanet
> is a joke. Official neighborhood polygons are available but the naming does
> not correspond to the colloquial naming.
> I've been thinking about what data could be used to make such a service
> useful for the Amsterdam / NL / European context. It would probably need to
> look at named place features (polys / nodes) in OSM first, then possibly the
> flickr alpha shapes (didn't you have something to do with those?), and if
> that all fails look at the nearest primary / secondary road, square or other
> spatial landmark in OSM.
> I might give this a try.
> Martijn
>
> On Mon, Apr 4, 2011 at 7:08 AM, Michal Migurski <mike at stamen.com> wrote:
>
>> Mike Frumin put together a neat service that generates human-readable
>> names based on nearby OSM ways:
>>        http://frumin.net/ation/2011/04/openstreetblock.html
>>
>> I makes strings like "14th St between 6th Ave and 7th Ave", currently just
>> for NYC data.
>>
>> -mike.
>>
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