Daniel Spils
Seattle

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News: Draw your neighborhood boundary on a map  — 2 years ago

On neighborhood maps you can now draw and edit boundary lines. It’s pretty sweet. I just drew the neighborhood boundary for Capitol Hill in Seattle.

You’ll see a “create neighborhood boundary” link at the top of neighborhood map pages. Clik that to get started. A tip: when you’re setting points for drawing the boundary line you can always click “remove last point” to go back a pinpoint.

Jun 29, 2006, 11:19AM PDT 9 cheers

Comments:

Carrick
Seattle

A little hard to see

The boundary line is so faint I wouldn’t have seen it had I not known it was there and was looking for it.

Jun 29, 2006, 12:59PM PDT | Thread | Respond to this

Maggie
Seattle

i agree

it might look better on my mac at home (most things do!) but here at work I can hardly see it at all.

EDIT: it’s a little easier to see if you zoom in.

Jun 29, 2006, 02:18PM PDT | Thread | Respond to this

Daniel Spils
Seattle

reload your browser

Todd just fixed this. Some browsers (like ours) were seeing it great because they defaulted to the correct style. So Todd set the style to a thickness and color purple that should show up for all browsers now. Let us know if it looks good …

Jun 29, 2006, 02:38PM PDT | Thread | Respond to this 1 cheer

Maggie
Seattle

Looks good to me! I like the purple—it’s noticable but not too distracting.

Jun 29, 2006, 02:43PM PDT | Thread | Respond to this 1 cheer

Daniel Spils
Seattle

favor

Can you try setting the boundary line for Belltown to see if it works for you? I’ll even provide you a definitive Belltown boundary map so you don’t have to look it up.

I’d like to make sure it works well enough for a non-Robot.

Jun 29, 2006, 03:58PM PDT | Thread | Respond to this

Senza titolo - Maggie
Senza titolo - Daniel Spils

Carrick
Seattle

Fixed

Yep, looks great. Awesome tool. It’s like that Gmaps Pedometer thing.

Jun 29, 2006, 03:33PM PDT | Thread | Respond to this 1 cheer

Josh Petersen
Seattle

You redrew my Mount Baker!

You absorbed Courtland Place, the Rainier Valley and about half the Genesee Neighborhood into Mount Baker. Holy Neighborhood imperialism! And you cut out the Mt Baker Rowing Center. What gives? We need to add comments to those maps for the neighborhood turf battles.

Jun 29, 2006, 04:05PM PDT | Thread | Respond to this 3 cheers

War - Carrick
That's a good map - Josh Petersen
Senza titolo - stagger
Senza titolo - stagger
Wishy washy - Josh Petersen
Home? - Lee LeFever
So... what's the latest word on this? - LunaNueva

Mary Hawkins
New York City

You guys rock!

And it’s done just in time for Cinephile and I to work out our neighborhoods…

Jun 29, 2006, 04:18PM PDT | Thread | Respond to this

Daniel Spils
Seattle

right on!

I just told Ivan that all his late night work on this was worth it. We’re thrilled that you two will be using the feature immediately.

Jun 29, 2006, 04:22PM PDT | Thread | Respond to this

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Jun 29, 2006, 04:48PM PDT

Mary Hawkins
New York City

Immediately!

It works! It’s a little slow for me since my browser takes a sec to settle on my new point, but I know that’s going to be useful for people drawing odd shapes.

Jun 29, 2006, 04:50PM PDT | Thread | Respond to this

Mary Hawkins
New York City

Hey...

Will these show up when I’m sorting other places? This would be a great feature to have when I sort places that I don’t know as well, like Brooklyn and Boston…

Jun 29, 2006, 04:56PM PDT | Respond to this

Daniel Spils
Seattle

memory intensive

Some browsers work much better. I noticed that Safari on Mac is super slow. Firefox is faster. On a PC Firefox works best—and PCs tend to handle this much better. Ivan is on a PC and it’s lightning fast.

Also, if you’re running a bunch of apps on your computer you may trying closing a few as it tends to take a good amount of memory at times. Good luck.

Jun 29, 2006, 05:39PM PDT | Thread | Respond to this

Mary Hawkins
New York City

apps...

Apps huh? That would be it…

I often go off and surf while stuff renders in the background, so that has a lot to do with why my computer slows down…

Jun 29, 2006, 07:30PM PDT | Respond to this

cottonball
Toronto

How about showing neighbourhoods within neighbourhoods? Or even other neighbourhoods while you’re in a specific one.

Jun 29, 2006, 08:03PM PDT | Respond to this

NYCinephile
New York City

A Glitch?

I’m either missing something, or experiencing a glitch.

I’m able to initiate the boundary tool and post single points, but don’t see anything that allows me to draw a line that connects them.

For example, I wanted to draw the western border of Yorkville from 79th St to 96th St along Lexington Ave ….

I’m running IE7beta on WinXP.

Jun 30, 2006, 04:21AM PDT | Thread | Respond to this

Josh Petersen
Seattle

IE7?

We certainly haven’t tested IE 7 - so that could be the glitch. Try Firefox!

Jun 30, 2006, 11:06AM PDT | Respond to this

Larry Gilbert
San Diego

Is there any reason anyone can think of why this wouldn’t work on Firefox 1.5.0.4 for Mac? I just get a somewhat plainly-formatted page of text without any map.

Jun 30, 2006, 11:36PM PDT | Thread | Respond to this

Daniel Spils
Seattle

mac, firefox

Hey Larry,

Try reloading this page. I’m using a mac and firefox 1.5.0.4 and it’s working fine. Thanks.

Jul 03, 2006, 11:23AM PDT | Thread | Respond to this

Larry Gilbert
San Diego

Looks great. I don’t know if it was a bug or a temporary glitch, but it’s working for me now. Thanks!

Jul 04, 2006, 02:23PM PDT | Respond to this

tjmartin
0 places

Who built this API?

Hi Gang,

I am actually from England, but love this API!!!

Can someone let me know who it was who created it, so that i might be able to chat to them about how he set this up!

The turf wars sound like fun!

But then again these boundaries will never be correct!

Thanks

Jul 04, 2006, 09:00AM PDT | Respond to this

Paola
Noord-Holland

Halfway through...

Roman rioni. God bless bureaucracy and their maps!

Jul 11, 2006, 12:59PM PDT | Thread | Respond to this 1 cheer

Daniel Spils
Seattle

what is your 'hood?

I want to see the boundary when you’re done. Where you living in Roma?

Jul 11, 2006, 01:17PM PDT | Thread | Respond to this

Paola
Noord-Holland

I'm still

Paola from the block

But first I want to draw the historical rioni boundaries – not much to see for tourists around here!

Jul 11, 2006, 02:38PM PDT | Respond to this

FlyGirl
Houston

As Usual

I’m a little dense. I can’t even find the neighborhood maps page, let alone figure out how to map my neighborhood. I did find the map for upper Kirby, but it doesn’t have any boundaries and it also doesn’t have a “create neighborhood boundaries” selection, which leads me to believe I’m wandering in the weeds while everyone else is picking daisies in the field.

Jul 12, 2006, 02:39PM PDT | Thread | Respond to this

Daniel Spils
Seattle

dense software

Generally speaking, the software is usally denser than any user. Your confusion is completely understandable. In the case of Upper Kirby it’s marked as a neighborhood (thanks for doing that) and is ready to go—except that you first need to place Upper Kirby on the greater Houston map. Click the “help us map this place link”, then click on the map to place a pin where you think Upper Kirby exists. You can zoom in/out using the slider on the left.

Once you feel you’ve got the pin in the correct place, click the “save” button in the upper left corner.

Okay, now you should see an “add neighborhood boundary” link on the map. Now, you can play around with the boundary mapping—let me know if you have any questions. It’s fun!

Jul 12, 2006, 02:54PM PDT | Thread | Respond to this

FlyGirl
Houston

I played around with the link to try setting the boundaries for Montrose, which is an adjacent neighborhood that has already been entered, but I can only put one point at a time and, when I add a new point, the old one disappears, so I am not doing something right.

Jul 12, 2006, 03:09PM PDT | Respond to this

FlyGirl
Houston

Double Duh!

Not only am I dense, but backwards. I added Mai’s Restaurant today and later thought to add the neighborhood for Mai’s, which is Midtown. Is there anyway to add the neighborhood to Mai’s Restaurant’s location so that when I learn to add boundaries for the neighborhood, it will include Mai’s like your spiffy little neighborhood map does?

Jul 12, 2006, 02:56PM PDT | Respond to this

mackro
Seattle

Works fine on IE6 on WinXP

I just mapped out Fremont, Seattle without any problems. The interface was really easy to use, as far as undoing any mistakes, and viewing progress.

I might help do the same with other Seattle neighborhoods if time permits.

The toughest part, actually, is searching for the correct borders for a neighborhood online. This definitely requires some cursory level of research, and—in urban centers—shouldn’t be done ad hoc.. but that’s just the geographical nerd talking here. :)

Jul 17, 2006, 08:03AM PDT | Thread | Respond to this

Daniel Spils
Seattle

thanks for drawing Fremont

Agreed that it really takes a bit of initiative to find the correct boundaries (and even a bit of interpretation at times). We’ve got a nice big Seattle neighborhood boundary map on the wall, which is always helpful.

Jul 19, 2006, 07:17AM PDT | Respond to this


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