On Tue, Mar 24, 2015 at 4:41 AM, Martin Koppenhoefer <dieterdre...@gmail.com > wrote:
> > 2015-03-22 4:00 GMT+01:00 Clifford Snow <cliff...@snowandsnow.us>: > >> 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. > > Points are too general. Polygons are too specific. Jeeze. One could invent something in between: an approximate radius point or a fuzzy polygon. ---- Please don't assume because your particular neighborhood has (insert one: fuzzy boundaries, exact legal boundaries, well understood boundaries, an edit war about the boundary, a name used only for a railroad outhouse building in 1850) that there is only One True Solution.
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