In Nashville, TN, where I live, most of the city's growth has been since World War II, and hence suburban in nature. Some subdivisions have permanent signs, some don't. Some have a discernable tree structure, some have a loose grid, a few areas have a rectilinear grid. Plus, some areas combine later development with what used to be small towns, swallowed up as the city expanded. Some areas have names picked by a modern developer, some are named after these old towns, and at least one area is named after a particular pre-Civil-War mansion that, for decades, was the largest house in the neighborhood. So, the neighborhood naming scheme is best described as "all of the above".
Minh Nguyen <m...@1ec5.org> wrote: > I've driven all over Cincinnati's northeastern suburbs collecting > subdivision names, the ones that adorn signs and gates at subdivision > entrances. I used to hear school bus drivers use the same names when > communicating their progress over the radio. These subdivisions are > only > meaning of "neighborhood" that makes sense in an area with endless > sprawl. > > Upon returning to my armchair, I trace individual landuse=residential > polygons for each of these subdivisions. It's easy to discern the > boundaries because most subdivisions aren't connected. Where they are, > > one can easily spot where sidewalks end, one cookie cutter > architecture > gives way to another, or the pavement quality changes -- some cities > repave one whole subdivision at a time. > -- 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
