Neat and potentially very useful. I wonder how well it translates to non-US / non-urban spatial contexts. Take our local situation here in Amsterdam. The street layout is completely different – hence all the clueless American tourists on every street corner ;) – and people are not thinking in terms of intersections when they are giving directions or orienting themselves. Even so, a service that comes up with a best guess vernacular name for a neighborhood would be very useful. I don't know of one service or dataset, commercial or otherwise, that does this well for Amsterdam. Yahoo! GeoPlanet is a joke. Official neighborhood polygons are available but the naming does not correspond to the colloquial naming. I've been thinking about what data could be used to make such a service useful for the Amsterdam / NL / European context. It would probably need to look at named place features (polys / nodes) in OSM first, then possibly the flickr alpha shapes (didn't you have something to do with those?), and if that all fails look at the nearest primary / secondary road, square or other spatial landmark in OSM. I might give this a try. Martijn
On Mon, Apr 4, 2011 at 7:08 AM, Michal Migurski <[email protected]> wrote: > Mike Frumin put together a neat service that generates human-readable names > based on nearby OSM ways: > http://frumin.net/ation/2011/04/openstreetblock.html > > I makes strings like "14th St between 6th Ave and 7th Ave", currently just > for NYC data. > > -mike. > > ---------------------------------------------------------------- > michal migurski- [email protected] > 415.558.1610 > > > > > _______________________________________________ > talk mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk > -- Martijn van Exel http://about.me/mvexel
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