If you had a lot of people submitting their own version of the boundaries
for the same neighborhood, it would be interesting to create a composite
layer.  A grid with cells containing the degree of agreement on whether the
cell is in or out.  When using the data, one could then determine how strong
of an agreement was appropriate for their end use.

To get enough data to make this meaningful, it would likely only work for
more localized areas.

I would bet that based on where one person lives, they may not skew
boundaries in equal directions.  If I lived in East Dumpsville, I would
happily extend the boundary of Prosperous Park over to the other side of my
house.  If I lived in PP, I don't think that I would map it that far to the
East...

David.



On 9/17/07, Raj Singh <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> This is what I'm offering. The idea of creating a database of
> neighborhoods that many people could collaboratively develop fits
> nicely into a research project I'm involved in at the MIT dept. of
> urban studies & planning:
> <http://web.mit.edu/dusp/uis/www/projects.html#middleware>
> ---
> Raj
>
>
> On Sep 16, 2007, at 2:35 PM, Charles Bolton wrote:
>
> > If you are interested, let me know or Raj.  It would be helpful if
> > their was
> > a professor or graduate teaching assistant in a EIS/Geo department
> > of a
> > university who would be willing to contribute the knowledge to get
> > us moving
> > down the right path.
>
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