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Official unofficial neighborhoods, 2017

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Time for an update on the classic-yet-ongoing neighborhood mapping project! To recap: we’re on version 2 of a web survey for mapping Boston-area neighborhoods, the boundaries of which can be the subject of much disagreement. We’ve asked people to draw neighborhood extents as they see them, in an attempt to collect enough of these crowd-submitted shapes to be able to say something about the overall popular perception of neighborhood geography.

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