[Geowanking] Re: neighborhood database?

[Eric Fischer]

On Sep 17, 2007 3:34 PM, joshua <joshua at burri.to> wrote:

>  I wonder if you could statistically derive this stuff. For example, I
> notice that "Palo Alto" is either Peninsula or South Bay on Craigslist, but
> not both. Put it in both and see how often it's classified one way or
> another?
>

http://hood.theory.org/ is one attempt to map what street addresses people
on Craigslist consider to be within certain neighborhoods.  One problem
with, though, it is that Craigslist provides a certain list of neighborhood
names and they aren't necessarily the same ones that people use in real
life.

Eric
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