2015-03-22 4:00 GMT+01:00 Clifford Snow <[email protected]>:

> At its most basic, OSM is a geospatial database. We have countries,
> states, counties, and cities. Why not neighborhoods. OSM tells where a
> feature is located. Points can only tell us how close a feature is to a
> node. Using nodes to represent neighborhoods doesn't allow with any
> certainty where a feature is located while a polygon can.



+1

Cheers,
Martin
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