New York's Crowdsourced Neighborhoods

Back inwards August DNAinfo asked New Yorker's to depict their neighborhoods on an interactive map. By allowing the crowd to arrive at upwardly one's heed on the boundaries of their local neighborhoods DNAinfo hoped to settle the onetime declaration over the exact seat of New York neighborhoods.

Where Exactly is Your Neighborhood allows yous to alternative a New York neighborhood as well as and then depict the neighborhood boundary on altitude of a Leaflet map. Once yous convey drawn your neighborhood's edge on the map yous tin compare your neighborhood boundary amongst those submitted yesteryear other New Yorkers.

You tin right away likewise persuasion the composite maps of New York's crowdsourced neighborhoods. The results of over 12,000 responses are right away in, providing crowdsourced boundaries for 250 New York neighborhoods. DNAInfo's New York Map allows yous to direct whatever New York neighborhood as well as persuasion a choropleth map of the crowdsourced results.

The darkest color on the map shows the expanse of New York which nearly people idea prevarication inside the selected neighborhood. The lighter colored areas signal locations that a few dissenters likewise idea were encompassed yesteryear the neighborhood boundary.

I'm non certain that the DNAInfo's crowdsourcing efforts convey conclusively settled the declaration over New York's neighborhood boundaries. In approximately neighborhoods in that place does appear to last a fair total of understanding over the area's boundaries. Other neighborhoods all the same appear harder to define. The arguments volition croak on ...