How to model places with different boundaries depending on language?

Neighborhoods can be a fuzzy subject. We aren’t necessarily aiming to have as much coverage in every city as Quattroshapes, which takes an Urban Dictionary–esque approach to recording place names.

Assuming you can square these neighborhoods with the on-the-ground rule, it makes sense to me that an ethnic group, indigenous group, or other community would have more detailed geographical references for the places they live than outsiders would have for them. If English speakers don’t have their own name for the place and don’t even have a reason to refer to the place, then English is as irrelevant for the purpose of tagging the place as it would be for somewhere in rural Poland.

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