HRM Neighbourhood Map Project
HRM Neighbourhood Map, version 3.0 (updated August 27, 2010)
NOTE: Now is the time to get involved! What made this project so great in Toronto is that after the obvious names were established, the neighbours discussed and bickered over names until every neighbourhood was named, and now they use the names. Tell me what you think!
Click on the map to zoom, click hold drag to move around. Click on a coloured shape to see the name (or proposed name!) of the neighbourhood.
The map takes a minute to load. On Internet Explorer on on Windows you may need to reload/refresh the page if you don’t see the neighbourhood shapes.
Give it a minute, the map is loading (may take a while)
This project is inspired by the community map project at the Toronto Star .
That map proved hugely popular in Toronto and the paper was inundated with comments, e-mails and letters in the form of “congratulations, suggestions, and pleas from overlooked communities for a spot on the map”.
For the next while, at least a month, we will have an open call for submissions to my email, wayemason(at)gmail(dot)com. Please describe the name and bounderies of the neighbourhood as you and your neighbours know them. I will periodically update the map, and then re-post the map for comments.
Majority rules and common sense will prevail. If most people are against something, and argue that a name is not in common use, we won’t use it.
Discussion is going to happen in the new FORUM here.
Read more about the project here
I will blog the updates and debate here.
UPDATE 1 – Read about our technical issues and neighbourhood debates here.
UPDATE 2 – Fixed and working!
MINI UPDATE – Wow Bedford and Spryfield, here.
my family debates that rockingham starts at he edge of oakhill drive and doesn’t split the neighborhood like that. It’s a single neighborhood with a school in the center.
Moved this to the forum – see my questions there.