On Wed, 2011-08-31 at 06:43 -0500, John F. Eldredge wrote: > The same situations occur in the USA. Neighborhood names can also > shift over time. My neighborhood shows up on maps as "Murray > Heights", probably dating back to the original real-estate development > in the 1950's. In the 19 years I have lived here, I have never heard > anyone call it by that name, but I have heard it referred to by the > names of the two larger, adjacent neighborhoods.
Another one that has occurred... in Portland (which has formalized district names and boundaries), the Boise District and the Eliot District were distinct when I was born (hence why Eliot is my middle name, being the neighborhood I was born into). Then the Rose Quarter District split from the Boise District when the Rose Garden Arena was built. The remainder of Boise merged with the Eliot District to form Boise-Eliot. The wisdom of building a FUGLY, hat-boxed shaped massive stadium next door to a massive stadium on city loans for a private interest owned by a Microsoft bazillionaire, bulldozing half of a historic Edwardian-era and primarily low-cost housing area in a city that really lacks history or low cost housing, has yet to be addressed by anyone; one of the reasons why I really have to get out of this stupid city... _______________________________________________ Tagging mailing list [email protected] http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/tagging
