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Nathaniel V. KELSO
October 20, 2016
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Who ARE the People in your Neighborhood? Developing Mapzen’s Neighborhood Database
Nat Case, INCase LLC
[email protected]
NACIS 2016
Nathaniel V. KELSO
October 20, 2016
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Who ARE the People in your Neighborhood? Developing Mapzen’s Neighborhood
Database Nat Case, INCase LLC
[email protected]
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 classifica@on (from Wikipedia)
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Proofed areas, December 2015-‐December 2016
Total WOF neighborhood space
1. WOE’s source data was bad 2. WOE’s compila@on
was bad 3. Flickr’s users were bad 4. QuaProshapes and Zetashapes logic was bad 5. Ci@es are stupid 6. Ci@es don’t have neighborhoods 7. Ci@es are confusing
WOE source data was bad
Mostly street names
Old plaPed addi@ons and subdivisions
Deprecated placenames
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Champion Street Map, Columbia SC, 1988 (thanks to Ross
Taylor, University of South Carolina Map Library)
WOE compila@on was bad
Missing rioni
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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
Ci@es are stupid
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Ci@es don’t have neighborhoods
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Ci@es are confusing
Greater Metropolitan Manchester
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Honolulu
Honolulu
Blue: LGAs Red: Locali@es/Suburbs
LAS VEGAS North Las Vegas Henderson
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SF Weekly, Apr 30, 2008
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A couple ideas
There are two basic kinds of populated place geography:
radial and bounded. Every named populated place has at least the poten@al to have both kinds of geography.
Village of Bledington
Parish of Bledington Village of Bledington
Neighborhoods are not subsets or subdivisions of ci@es,
but instead are unincorporated places.
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Greater Metropolitan Manchester
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