Op 24 april 2012 16:44 schreef Pieren <[email protected]> het volgende:
> On Tue, Apr 24, 2012 at 4:20 PM, Martin Koppenhoefer > <[email protected]> wrote: > > > if neighbourhood is missleading, you could invent a place=block below > > neighbourhood. "neighbourhood" seems to be interpreted differently in > > different cultural backgrounds. Personally I always saw it as a > > relatively small entity, smaller than a quarter which would be smaller > > than a suburb. > > It seems that neighbourhood/district/quarter are very closed and hard > to translate (as you say, it's cultural). But the "block" seems to be > easy to define since it is the smallest area defined by a street grid. > > Pieren > It isn't always that easy to define. It's possible that paths or maybe service roads run through blocks. And it's also possible that a block on the outside of a town is only surrounded with 3 streets. I would go for relations which define the boundaries. As most of the time, the boundaries are streets, almost no extra ways are needed.
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