On Wed, Jun 12, 2013 at 6:21 PM, Serge Wroclawski <emac...@gmail.com> wrote:
> > 1. How can someone survey a neighborhood? It seems that in many cases, > neighborhoods are subjective, and people may disagree on where it is, > and both be right. How does your proposal address this issue? > It's the same as named place nodes. It's something that is important as a geographical reference point, yet not strictly defined, but locals can easily agree on where it should be. > > 2. If I understand your proposal correctly, you are saying that your > solution is that nodes, rather than polygons, offer a concept of > "fuzzyness", that solves some of the subjectiveness issues. But if you > know the data is "fuzzy" then isn't it also, by definition, then a bit > wrong as well, since we can't make radius assumptions about > neighborhoods, and our scale of neighborhood changes so much depending > on where we're talking about? > > I'm not proposing a solution, I'm just contributing to the discussion with the hopes of reaching a consensus on how to do this, if at all. The answer to your question is no, the data would not be 'wrong', because it's what local mappers agree on. > 3. We already have "issues" with neighborhoods messing up the > geocoding problems in OSM. If we have lots of new users who are adding > nodes, won't this just get worse? > I don't know of those issues so I can't really answer that. > 4. Why not agree to use another service for this data other than OSM? > Or conversely, why not use an existing dataset other than OSM, which > already contains neighborhoods, such as the Flickr dataset As far as I am concerned, that could be an option, but the fact is that there is a place=neighbourhood tag and people are going to use it, and other people are going to look at the data and go: meh OSM has poor neighborhood coverage, let's do something about that - and then we'll have this discussion again. -- Martijn van Exel http://oegeo.wordpress.com/ http://openstreetmap.us/
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