New Crowdsourcing Neighborhood Boundaries


In maps (as inwards life) boundaries tin hold out fluid entities. This seems especially truthful when considering local neighborhood boundaries, where it tin hold out rattling hard to notice fifty-fifty 2 people who grip on the borders of their local neighborhoods.

In Los Angeles the boundary of the city's Eastside neighborhood is especially hard to define because in that place seems to hold out no official map of the area's extent. The Los Angeles Times thence decided to settle the declaration yesteryear bespeak their readers to depict Eastside on a map.

On the L.A.'s Eastside: Where practice y'all depict the line? map y'all tin purpose the Leaflet drawing tools to depict your thought of where Eastside's boundaries lie. You tin in addition to so compare your concept of the neighborhood amongst the catch of the Los Angleles Times in addition to amongst the views of other readers.


Bostonography was in all likelihood the showtime website to travail in addition to crowdsource neighborhood boundaries, amongst their projection to notice out where residents believe Boston's neighborhood boundaries lie.

The projection uses a Google Maps tool to allow participants to depict on a Google Map where they mean value Boston neighborhood boundaries run. This has allowed Bostonography to practice a map of all the amalgamated responses so far.

The results for each neighborhood are also existence analysed to run across which neighborhood boundaries participants bring a potent understanding nearly in addition to to highlight areas where in that place are contradictory opinions nearly which neighborhood they belong to.


The Neighborhoods Mapping Project wants y'all to forget nearly what Google & Apple maps tell y'all nearly your local communities in addition to instead map your ain neighborhood boudaries. The consequence is a crowd-sourced map of Portland, Seattle in addition to Vancouver neighborhoods.

No names or boundaries are included inwards the initial map catch of each city. Local citizens tin thence map their ain ideas nearly their local neighborhoods. To start adding neighborhoods to the map simply click on the 'start mapping' button. You tin in addition to so purpose the drawing tools to depict around a neighborhood on the map. When y'all bring finished your neighborhood boundary y'all tin advert the surface area in addition to rank it a description.

Once you've finished drawing your neighborhoods on the map (or if y'all simply desire to run across what other people bring mapped) y'all tin conduct the 'view maps' option. Do this in addition to the crowd-sourced neighborhoods volition hold out outlined on the map. Click on an surface area on the map in addition to y'all tin read what others bring called the neighborhood in addition to how they define the area.

If y'all don't alive inwards Portland, Seattle or Vancouver y'all tin e'er start your ain crowd-sourced neighborhood map yesteryear forking the projection on GitHub.


The Neighborhoods Project is some other experiment inwards crowdsourcing U.S. of America neighborhood polygons. The Neighborhoods Project allows developers to download neighborhood boundaries for every metropolis inwards the U.S. of America derived from geotags on Flickr photos.

Users tin also edit the Flickr derived boundaries in addition to download a custom GeoJSON amongst the edits applied. Edits to the boundaries are in addition to so fed dorsum into the overall results to assistance amend the boundary data.
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