[Sigia-l] info on neighborhoods in u.s. cities

[Frank Shepard]

Russell,

Thanks for your response. I'm glad to see that it's been done. My
primary question at this point is how one associates a given
neighborhood with a zip code (or whatever other coordinate one uses as
the base). Is this information -- the mapping of neighborhoods to
zipcodes -- readily available? Do you remember where you obtained it?

Thanks again!
Frank

On 5/16/07, Russell E. Unger <russ at userglue.com> wrote:
> Dealt with something similar as this--we took a zip code (or zip codes,
> really) and associated those to the neighborhoods.
>
> Based upon a zip code selection, a user could then do a deeper dive for
> neighborhoods.  This worked well for large metropolitan areas (also
> allowed us to do things like "west suburbs" vs "south suburbs") but also
> allowed us to ignore smaller towns / communities where it did not apply.
>
> We had some debate around how to handle "Burroughs" and I do not recall
> the outcome.
>
> The other tricky issue was how to handle the transaction that would check
> for a zip that had neighborhoods associated with it.
>
> HTH,
>
> Russ
>
> On Wed, May 16, 2007 10:18 am, Frank Shepard wrote:
> > Hello,
> >
> > A client wants to expand the local search functionality of their site
> > by allowing users to expand the radius that defines the result set.
> > They currently do this in terms of distances (miles) but would like
> > the list of options to include a list of "surrounding neighborhoods."
> > (Yelp.com offers this functionality on their site.) This would require
> > a list of neighborhood names in U.S. cities (which I have located) as
> > well as some way to determine their proximity to a given point (maybe
> > a zipcode). Does anyone know if this information is widely available,
> > either free (e.g., from the post-office) or otherwise? Is there a
> > standardized government list associated with zip-codes?  Does anyone
> > have any suggestions? Your assistance is much appreciated.
> >
> > Best regards,
> > Frank Shepard
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