Yea, I think this is where sources like Geonames and Zillow, which are built (to an extent) based on actual perceived names rather than official ones, could be so valuable - and why GNIS populated places are detrimental to OSM map quality, at least in many urban areas.
On Tue, Jun 11, 2013 at 1:55 PM, John F. Eldredge <j...@jfeldredge.com>wrote: > My house is technically in a subdivision named Murray Heights, but I have > only seen that name on the deed, and on maps. In the 21 years I have lived > here, I have never heard anyone use that name. The subdivision was built in > the late 1950s, and, unlike some other local subdivisions, there aren't any > permanent signs in place as you enter the subdivision. > > According to the post office, my house is in the Woodbine postal district, > named after a small town that was subsequently swallowed up by the > expansion of Nashville. However, when people refer to the Woodbine area, > they usually mean the approximate area of the old town, several miles from > my house. > > I usually refer to my neighborhood as Antioch, the name of another small > town that has expanded outward, even though the official border of Antioch, > according to the post office, is about 300 feet from my house. > > > Bryce Nesbitt <bry...@obviously.com> wrote: >> >> >>> On 11/giu/2013, at 21:07, Mike N <nice...@att.net> wrote: >>> >>> > 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. >>> >>> or ask the people that live there, would that be feasible? >> >> >> Sometimes subdivisions map cleanly to neighborhoods. But not always. >> >> In the USA aspirational neighborhoods are common, if not the rule. As a >> neighborhood gets trendy more and more people at the edges (and more and >> more Realtors) latch on to that name. >> >> The Zillow data is a very rigid idea of what a neighborhood is. >> Walk three blocks away from "Noe Valley" and ask what neighborhood you >> are in, >> and you're likely to get four answers. Capturing that diversity would >> produce a far more useful neighborhood guide than just importing Zillow. >> >> ------------------------------ >> >> Talk-us mailing list >> Talk-us@openstreetmap.org >> http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-us >> >> > -- > John F. Eldredge -- j...@jfeldredge.com > "Reserve your right to think, for even to think wrongly is better than not > to think at all." -- Hypatia of Alexandria > > _______________________________________________ > Talk-us mailing list > Talk-us@openstreetmap.org > http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-us > > -- Martijn van Exel http://oegeo.wordpress.com/ http://openstreetmap.us/
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