Collective knowledge and The Neighborhood Project

Interesting experiment in collective knowledge:

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. The address and neighborhood data are collected from housing posts on craigslist, and from people filling out the form below. The coordinates are generated using the free geocoder.us. The map is from the TIGER/Line US Census data. Our first city is San Francisco, but we will add more soon....

The more people who add their opinion to the database, the more accurate the neighborhood boundaries become.

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