Luis Villa <[email protected]> writes: >> My guess is the only split that the majority in the state would instantly >> recognize would be “Northern California” and “Southern California”. However >> exactly where that split occurs is likely to be contested. :) >> >> Were I to hazard a guess, I would start on the coast somewhere around San >> Luis Obispo > > I think Tod is correct here that north/south is the only split most > Californians would recognize, and that the dividing line is not consistent. > (You might also get a "Central California" from some folks, but the > dividing lines there would be similarly fuzzy.) My wife grew up in San Luis > Obispo, and people from LA tend to say she's from Northern California and > San Franciscans say she's from Southern California.
I'm someone who has only been to California occasionally, and for me also the north/south split is the one that seems the most likely for many to be able to grasp. I have never heard of "six californias" in any coherent way; it seemed new on reading. And I would have little clue about the edges of those boundaries even seeing the list of names. So I think that's not a good idea, because split extracts need to target being understood by nonlocals. I would of course recommend listening to locals about exactly shere between SF and LA the line is, and I would align to counties so that each county is in north or south, and have the east-west line more or less try to follow latitude from the breakpoint from the coast. With a N/S split like we are converging on, most users that are ok with half will guess right the first time, and people that care about areas near the border will get it that they are near the border and need both or the whole thing. _______________________________________________ Talk-us mailing list [email protected] https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-us
