On Tue, Mar 24, 2015 at 7:46 AM, Kevin Kenny <[email protected]> wrote:
> Or follow the obvious rule: Let the local mappers decide. > > Use point features for indeterminate things. > > In areas where neighborhoods have borders that are identifiable on the > ground, map the borders. Some neighborhoods are gated. Some are signed. > Some, all the locals understand, are bounded by major streets. Many > subdivisions, even if not signed, have homogeneous enough architecture that > the borders are obvious. And some cities try to foster neighborhood > identity and specifically identify neighborhoods, even where the > neighborhoods are not legal political entities. > > Don't decide as an armchair mapper that you know better than the locals. > This goes double for using a mechanical edit to "fix" what the locals have > done. Fix only what you can see is wrong on the ground (or what you can't > see on the ground at all). This sort of fixing requires boots on the > ground. (I'm willing to allow an exception for repairing the damage done by > ill-advised mechanical edits - but only after consultation with the locals.) > +1 -- @osm_seattle osm_seattle.snowandsnow.us OpenStreetMap: Maps with a human touch
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