Mapping Hacks

Jonathan Moore sent us a link to The
Neighborhood Project:

The Neighborhood Project is creating a map of city
neighborhoods based on the collective opinions of internet users. Addresses and
neighborhood data are translated into latitude and longitude values, and then
drawn on the map…. This is an experiment in collective knowledge. The more
people who add their opinion to the database, the more accurate the
neighborhood boundaries become.

They’ve started with San Francisco, and are using our free geocoder at geocoder.us to do the address lookups. They’ve
done a cute “magnifying” DHTML hack for viewing whole map at once. If you’re
interested, they’ve published source under the GPL. I want one for London!

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