HRM Neighbourhood Map Project
HRM Neighbourhood Map, version 3.0 Jan 11, 2010
Sorry for the periodic breaking of the map, it appears to be a problem on the Google side, not on my sites side, so there is nothing that can be done to fix it (to the best of my knowledge). If it is broken it is usually back in a couple hours.
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.
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.