Who ARE the People in your Neighborhood? Developing Mapzen’s Neighborhood Database

Nat Case, INCase LLC
nat@incasellc.com
NACIS 2016

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1. Who ARE the People in your Neighborhood? Developing Mapzen’s Neighborhood Database Nat Case, INCase LLC nat@incasellc.com
2. 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  
3. Where  On  Earth  field  classifica@on   (from    Wikipedia)  
5. Proofed  areas,  December  2015-­‐December  2016  
6. Total  WOF  neighborhood  space  
7. 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  
8. WOE  source  data  was  bad  
9. Mostly  street  names  
10. Old  plaPed  addi@ons  and  subdivisions  
11. Deprecated  placenames  
14. Champion  Street  Map,  Columbia  SC,  1988   (thanks  to  Ross  Taylor,  University  of  South  Carolina  Map  Library)  
15. WOE  compila@on  was  bad  
16. Missing  rioni  
19. Green  Project   Sand  Lake  Groves     Orange  County  GIS  
20. Flickr  users  are  bad  
21. Yellow  =  “Downtown  Omaha”  
22. Quatroshapes  and     Zetashapes  logic  were  bad  
23. Hamburg  city  limits  (green)  and     Quatroshapes  polygons  for     neighborhoods  
24. Ci@es  are  stupid  
26. Ci@es  don’t  have  neighborhoods  
28. Ci@es  are  confusing  
29. Greater  Metropolitan  Manchester  
31. Honolulu  
32. Honolulu  
33. Blue:  LGAs   Red:  Locali@es/Suburbs  
34. LAS  VEGAS   North  Las  Vegas   Henderson  
36. SF  Weekly,  Apr  30,  2008      
38. A  couple  ideas  
39. 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.    
40. Village  of  Bledington  
41. Parish  of  Bledington   Village  of  Bledington  
42. Neighborhoods  are  not  subsets  or   subdivisions  of  ci@es,     but  instead  are  unincorporated  places.  
45. Greater  Metropolitan  Manchester