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Who ARE the People in your
Neighborhood? Developing Mapzen’s
Neighborhood Database
Nat Case, INCase LLC
nat@incasellc.com
Who’s On First
Processed tags and generated polygons, centroids,
and calcluated prominence based number of tagged photos
Flickr
Geotags using Where On Earth geocode list
Where On Earth
From GeoPlanet to Yahoo
Where On Earth field classification
(from Wikipedia)
Proofed areas, December 2015-December 2016
Total WOF neighborhood space
1. WOE’s source data was bad
2. WOE’s compilation was bad
3. Flickr’s users were bad
4. Quattroshapes and Zetashapes logic was bad
5. Cities are stupid
6. Cities don’t have neighborhoods
7. Cities are confusing
WOE source data was bad
Mostly street names
Old platted additions and subdivisions
Deprecated placenames
Champion Street Map, Columbia SC, 1988
(thanks to Ross Taylor, University of South Carolina Map Library)
WOE compilation was bad
Missing rioni
Green Project
Sand Lake Groves
Orange County GIS
Flickr users are bad
Yellow = “Downtown Omaha”
Quatroshapes and
Zetashapes logic were bad
Hamburg city limits (green) and
Quatroshapes polygons for
neighborhoods
Cities are stupid
Cities don’t have neighborhoods
Cities are confusing
Greater Metropolitan Manchester
Honolulu
Honolulu
Blue: LGAs
Red: Localities/Suburbs
LAS VEGAS
North Las Vegas
Henderson
SF Weekly, Apr 30, 2008
A couple ideas
There are two basic kinds of populated place geography:
radial and bounded.
Every named populated place has at least the potential
to have both kinds of geography.
Village of Bledington
Parish of Bledington
Village of Bledington
Neighborhoods are not subsets or
subdivisions of cities,
but instead are unincorporated places.
Greater Metropolitan Manchester
Who ARE the People in your Neighborhood? Developing Mapzen's Neighborhood Database
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