It might be best to allow neighborhoods to be either polygons or points. Some
neighborhoods have a customary boundary line, such as a particular street or
waterway. Some are legally defined. Some just represent an approximate
location, meaning that a point will work better than a polygon. In some cases,
there may be more than one traditional name for an area, with slightly
different connotations (for example, one term may refer to a very limited area,
while another covers a broader area, including the small neighborhood mentioned
above).
Clifford Snow <cliff...@snowandsnow.us> wrote:
> On Tue, Jun 11, 2013 at 5:47 PM, william skora
> <skorasau...@gmail.com>wrote:
>
> > Given the subjective, fluid nature of neighborhoods - especially
> > boundaries - where one neighborhood ends and one begins - may change
> from
> > person to person, they are best represented as a single node in the
> area
> > where there is greatest consensus that the neighborhood is located.
> This
> > can be very roughly estimated by OSM mappers who locally live in or
> near
> > the area.
> >
>
> One reason for including boundaries is querying to determine what
> exists in
> a neighborhood. Another is to see the result from a search using
> nominatim.
> A single node doesn't really tell much of a story, while a boundary
> give a
> better scope of the neighborhood. It might be more compelling for 3rd
> parties to use our information if we included the boundaries. They in
> turn
> give us greater visibility. And while the boundaries may not be exact,
> people can always change them!
>
>
> --
> Clifford
>
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>
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