I think this is a problem more people have. In the GNIS import for populated places, a lot of apartment buildings and trailer parks are grouped together with 'real' populated places while they are really separate things for all intents and purposes. But that may also have a lot to do with lack of resolution of GNIS.
On Tue, Jun 11, 2013 at 1:07 PM, Mike N <nice...@att.net> wrote: > On 6/11/2013 2:58 PM, Martijn van Exel wrote: > >> OSM has pretty poor neighborhood coverage in the US. We have around 1100 >> place=neighbo[u]rhood. Geonames has ten times that at 11,000 (feature >> class P.PPLX - not sure if all of those are neighborhoods) and Zillow >> has 7,000. >> > > The TIGER import brought in many subdivisions as Hamlets, so the some > information is there but is not necessarily the best form. > > I'm not clear myself on how to tag the classic US subdivision and > apartment complex. > > I try to change these to areas when possible so that Nominatim-style > searches doesn't identify nearby POIs outside the boundary as belonging to > the nearest neighborhood. Often, I can't determine the subdivision > boundary from either Bing or a survey; I'd need to see an organization map > which would be of questionable license. > > > ______________________________**_________________ > Talk-us mailing list > Talk-us@openstreetmap.org > http://lists.openstreetmap.**org/listinfo/talk-us<http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-us> > -- Martijn van Exel http://oegeo.wordpress.com/ http://openstreetmap.us/
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