Russ -- Yes, MR2 will have the ability to work on a specific location (likely to be specified as a point + radius, or bbox). What do you mean by correlating place values, correlating with what? Rural areas are not as important for neighborhood coverage I would say.
On Tue, Jun 11, 2013 at 1:37 PM, Russell Deffner < russ...@russelldeffnerconsulting.com> wrote: > I think this is a good idea but have some suggested considerations.**** > > ** ** > > If I remember correctly, MapRoulette 2 has the ability to localize the > challenge, correct? If/when is that available I think that would be a > great challenge, just a simple “verify this is the proper neighborhood name > and appropriate value”. However, I have not seen a real good reference for > correlating the place values in the US (although I haven’t looked); does > someone know of one? or maybe a good first step is to try and create one. > Also I don’t think this will get us anywhere near complete as we get into > rural areas we don’t know and that don’t have local mappers (and those > using MR), so we may need to further do some sort of ‘challenge’ (that may > not work with MR) to ‘import’/cross-reference another data set.**** > > ** ** > > =Russ**** > > russdeffner on OSM**** > > ** ** > > *From:* Martijn van Exel [mailto:m...@rtijn.org] > *Sent:* Tuesday, June 11, 2013 12:58 PM > *To:* OSM US Talk > *Subject:* [Talk-us] Neighborhoods / Zillow**** > > ** ** > > Hiya,**** > > ** ** > > 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. > Both these data sets are provided under (different) CC licenses. Could we > use either Geonames or Zillow to drive improvement to neighborhood name > coverage in OSM? I am not proposing an import, but a local MapRoulette > challenge might work where people with local knowledge accept / reject > proposed neighborhood points, or something along those lines.**** > > ** ** > > Martijn**** > > -- > Martijn van Exel > http://oegeo.wordpress.com/ > http://openstreetmap.us/ ** ** > -- Martijn van Exel http://oegeo.wordpress.com/ http://openstreetmap.us/
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