Where’s the line between the Old North End and New North End? How far does Downtown stretch? How big is the Five Sisters neighborhood?

If you think you know the answers to these questions, your expertise is needed. Burlington cartographer Bill Morris of GeoSprocket created a tool that allows you to draw the Queen City’s neighborhoods as you see fit. The results from all the submissions will be aggregated to form a consensus about where the ‘hoods are. This project was inspired by a similar undertaking in Boston — check that out here.

What’s the point in all this? Well, besides engendering a greater sense of neighborhood pride, it’s almost time again to reassess the boundaries of Burlington’s seven wards. There’s nothing official or binding about this project, but it could help inform redistricting decisions. If you think it’s silly to lump Lakeview Terrace and the stretch of North Avenue near Waggy’s in with the New North End’s Ward 7, now’s the time to speak up.

This article appears in Aug 15-21, 2012.

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Tyler Machado was the digital media manager at Seven Days. He mostly worked behind the scenes making sure the website, email newsletters and social media feeds stayed in tip-top shape.

2 replies on “Help Map Burlington’s Neighborhoods With New Crowdsourcing Project”

  1. Really interesting project. As a newcomer, it’s interesting to see how some neighborhoods are quite small, while the New North End is very large – it seems that there must be some smaller sub-communities there, too?

  2. They should just rename everthing north of BHS as “North Burlington” or even better “South Colchestor”

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