At the risk of over complicating things, let me give a little more info. LA County is a fragmented place with many different cities and unincorporated areas puzzled together. Our "neighborhoods" are in fact three different types of areas consolidated.
1. Cities divided into neighborhoods. i.e. http://projects.latimes.com/mapping-la/neighborhoods/city/los-angeles/ 2. Complete cities, drawn by their formal boundaries. i.e. http://projects.latimes.com/mapping-la/neighborhoods/neighborhood/west-hollywood/ 3. Unincorporated areas that are "Census Defined Places": http://projects.latimes.com/mapping-la/neighborhoods/neighborhood/east-los-angeles/ On top of that, there are dozens of small unincorporated areas that are basically islands floating between everything else. We've lumped them in with a bordering neighborhood: http://projects.latimes.com/mapping-la/neighborhoods/unincorporated/list/page/1/ Why did we throw all these together and call them neighborhoods? Because our goal is to have a single common denominator we can spread across the entire county and use for comparison. That's why we build them out of Census tracts, so we could rack up demographics about them all. i.e.: http://projects.latimes.com/mapping-la/neighborhoods/income/median/neighborhood/list/ As time goes on, we plan to divide up all of the cities into smaller neighborhoods, not just Los Angeles, we did in a first round last year. In cases where cities have official hood boundaries (LA does not) we'll likely use those. More info about the project and process is here: http://projects.latimes.com/mapping-la/neighborhoods/about/ On Wed, Jun 16, 2010 at 5:23 AM, John F. Eldredge <j...@jfeldredge.com>wrote: > This sounds like a good compromise to me, as most people will have a > general agreement of where a given neighborhood is located, but differ about > where the boundaries are located. > > -- > John F. Eldredge -- j...@jfeldredge.com > "Reserve your right to think, for even to think wrongly is better than not > to think at all." -- Hypatia of Alexandria > > -----Original Message----- > From: Ed Avis <e...@waniasset.com> > Date: Wed, 16 Jun 2010 08:46:09 > To: <talk@openstreetmap.org> > Subject: Re: [OSM-talk] > Q: Is OSM interested in neighborhood and r > egional boundaries for L.A.? > > A compromose would be to add the centre of each neighbourhood (as > locality=place > or similar) but not the exact boundaries. > > -- > Ed Avis <e...@waniasset.com> > > > _______________________________________________ > talk mailing list > talk@openstreetmap.org > http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk > > _______________________________________________ > talk mailing list > talk@openstreetmap.org > http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk > -- palewire.com work: 213-473-2624 cell: 213-254-5570
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