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

2010-06-16 Thread 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 ci

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

2010-06-16 Thread Ben Welsh
At the risk of over complicating things, let me give a little more info. LA County is a fragmented place with many different cities and unincorporated areas puzzled together. Our "neighborhoods" are in fact three different types of areas consolidated. 1. Cities divided into neighborhoods. i.e. ht

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

2010-06-15 Thread Ben Welsh
ny disrespect. I'm just honestly curious what y'all think and this seemed like the place to drop a line. Thank you, Sincerely, Ben Welsh. P.S. We already distribute all of the shapes in KML and GeoJSON. See: http://projects.latimes.com/mapping-la/api/