I think point features are definitely the way to go here - areas are nice but have the drawback of being to rigid a delineation, as well as being more difficult to map and maintain.
On Tue, Jun 11, 2013 at 2:11 PM, Bryce Nesbitt <bry...@obviously.com> wrote: > On Tue, Jun 11, 2013 at 1:05 PM, Martijn van Exel <m...@rtijn.org> wrote: > >> As for Bryce's observation - Zillow does not have overlapping polygons as >> far as I know, so it is by its nature sort of rigid - but then again this >> is probably what they require for their use case, as there would be no way >> to disambiguate. >> > > That said, neighborhoods are known to be fuzzy concepts, and getting a > person close to the right one has value. The zillow data for example could > be brought in as point features. While it seems a shame, it would remove > that whole issue of boundaries. Often (not always, but often) the > neighborhood does in fact have a well defined central core. > > _______________________________________________ > 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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